Bill Bell's all-time top 50 women's long course meters

WOMEN’S ALL-TIME WORLD TOP 50 PERFORMERS-PERFORMANCES RANKINGS

50 METER FREESTYLE Top 51 Performances 23.73** Britta Steffen, GER World Championships Rome 08-02-09 (Reaction Time: +0.77. (Note: first German gold-medalist/world record-setter. (Note: East Germany’s Kornelia Ender, Montreal Olympics 100 free/fly gold-medalist, swam an exhibition 50 free @ 1975 World Championships [Cali, COL.] clocking 26.99 for an unofficial world-record that was never ratified by FINA.) 23.88*# Therese Alshammar, SWE/Nebraska World Championships Rome 08-02-09 (Reaction Time: +0.72. (Note: Alshammar’s third silver-medal. Also was runner-up in 2001 [24.88} and 2007 [24.62]. (Note: fastest all-time by a swimmer 30+. Born: 08/26/77.) 23.96* Marleen Veldhuis, NED Amsterdam Swim Cup Amsterdam 04-19-09 (Reaction Time: +0.80. (Note: first world-record of career. (Note: in day’s first event [50 meter butterfly], Veldhuis also set a world-rcord. Second swimmer to hold both world standards simultaneously and first to set them on the same day/meet! Countrywoman Inge de Bruin set both wrs in summer of Y2K although not in same conpetitiom.) 23.97+* Lisbeth Trickett, AUS AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-29-08 (Note: set 100 meter freestyle world-record two days earlier. First Aussie woman to hold both global standards, third woman to hold 50-100 free wrs simultaneously. First was China’s Jjingyi Le [1994 World Championships, Rome]. Then Holland’s Inge de Bruijn [Speedo Super Grand Prix, Sheffield, May 2000]. De Bruijn repeated the feat four months later at the 2000 Olympics, in the same Sydney pool where Trickett broke her records.) 23.99 Cate Campbell, AUS World Championships Rome 08-02-09 (Reaction Time: +0.78. (Note: youngest-ever under 24.0. Turned 17 on May 20, 2009.) 23.99 Veldhuis World Championships Rome 08-02-09 (Reaction Time: +0.74. (Note: third woman under 24.0 in same race. First—and ONLY – time ever!) 24.05+ Ranomi Kromowidjojo, NED Olympics London 08-04-12 (Reaction Time: +0.72. (Note: fastest all-time textile. Also holds 100 free textile “world record” [52.75 from the Swimcup Eindhoven competition on – of all days – Friday, April 13! (Note: first individual Olympic gold, second Dutch gold-medalist. Countrywoman Inge de Bruijn won @ Sydney [Y2K] and also struck gold in 100 free -- a feat Kromowidjojo replicated here w/her 53.00 Olympic record. She also won a silver in the 400 sprint relay, anchoring in a blazing 51.93. “Inky” also won 50 @ Athens Olympics [2K4], becoming first and only woman to win back-to-back titles. 24.06 Steffen Olympics Beijing 08-17-08 (Reaction Time: + 0.80. (Note: also won 100 free. First German to sweep both sprint freestyles since GDR’s Kristen Otto won @ Seoul [1988]) 24.07* Dara Torres, USA/Florida Olympics Beijing 08-17-08 (Reaction Time: +0.73 – second-quickest) (Note: @ age 41 [born 04/15/67], oldest Olympic swimming competitor ever; oldest finalist ever; oldest medalist ever. Fifth

Olympics, first since Y2K. First competed @ Los Angeles [1984]. Second 50 free medal: won bronze @ Sydney [24.63]. (Note: 10th American 50 m free record of career, most-ever by ANY U.S. female swimmer in ANY event,. Don Schollander has most by ANY U.S.swimmer with 11 American records in 200 free.) 24.07sf2 Kromowidjojo Olympics London 08-03-12 24.08sf2 Campbell World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Note: fatest-ever qualifying time.) 24.09 Veldhuis XXIX European Championships Eindhoven 03-24-08 (Note: Championships record.) 24.10 Kromowidjojo Swimcup Eindhoven Eindhoven 04-15-12 24.11* Francesca Halsall, GBR World Championships Rome 08-02-09

Women’s All-Time World Performers-Performances Rankings of 63

24.13sf Inge de Bruijn, NED/Tualatin Hills SC Olympics Sydney 09-22-00 (Note: second-fastest all-time textile.) 24.13’ Campbell XLI Santa Clara International Invite. Santa Clara 05-18-08 (Note: 15 years old! Turned 16 two days later [05-20-08]. (Note: U.S. Open record.) 24.13 Halsall GBR Olympic Trials London 03-10-12 (Note: equals second-fastest all-time textile, fastest all-time in a British pool [London Olympic]) 24.14 Alshammar World Championships Shanghai 07-31-11 (Note: first World Championships gold of career. First/only Swedish winner, m/w. (Note: oldest winner all-time, m/w [33]. Born: 08/77) 24.14sf Kromowidjojo Swimcup Eindhoven Eindhoven 04-14-12 24.15 Trickett Arena Meeting de Canet/Mare Nostrum Canet 06-10-09 (Note: meet/Mare Nosrtum series/French Open/”All Comers records.) 24.17 Campbell Telstra Grand Prix 2 Sydney 07-06-08 24.17 Campbell Olympics Beijing 08-17-08 24.17 Alshammar Arena Meeting de Canet/Mare Nostrum Canet 06-10-09 24.19 Steffen GER Olympic Trials Berlin 04-23-08 24.19 Trickett World Championships Rome 08-02-09 24.20p Campbell Olympics Beijing 08-15-08 24.20sf1 Veldhuis World Championships Rome 08-01-09 24.21 Trickett XXX Ciutat de Barcelona/Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-06-09 (Note: Spanish Open/”All Comers”-meet records.) 24.21 Trickett 3rd Paris Open Paris 06-20-09 24.21 Kromowidjojo 49th Trofeo Settte Colli/Herbalife Invite. Rome 06-14-12 24.23 Alshammar 1st Paris Open Paris 08-05-07 24.23 Trickett AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-21-09 24.23 Amanda Weir, USA/Georgia World Championships Rome 08-02-09 24.24p Campbell World Championships Rome 08-01-09 24.24 Kromowidjojo Amsterdam Swim Cup Amsterdam 03-16-12 24.25 Torres U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-06-08 (Note: Trials record. Also won 100 free. (Note: oldest American record-setter ever [m/w]. Born: 04/15/67. Ninth 50 free AR [lcm] of career.) 24.25 Trickett Olympics Beijing 08-17-08 24.26sf Veldhuis XXIX European Championships Eindhoven 03-23-08 24.26 Veldhuis Olympics Beijing 08-17-08 24.27sf2 Torres Olympics Beijing 08-16-08 24.27 Trickett AUS Dual Meet/”Duel in the Pool I” Canberra 05-10-09 24.27 Alshammar XLVII Sette Colli Internazinale d’Italia Pescara 06-17-10 (Note: meet-record.) 24.27 Kromowidjojo World Championships Shanghai 07-31-11 24.27 Campbell AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 05-03-13 24.28sf2 Steffen World Championships Rome 08-01-09 24.28* Aliaksandra Herasimenia, BLR Olympics London 08-04-12 24.30 Veldhuis Dutch Open Swim Cup Eindhoven 12-08-07 24.30sf Campbell AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-28-08 24.30 Trickett XXVII Mtng. de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-14-09 24.30p Alshammar World Championships Rome 08-01-09 24.30 Kromowidjojo NED Open Championships Eindhoven 12-02-11 Remaining Top 50 Performers 24.42 Inge Dekker, NED Amsterdam Swim Cup Amsterdam 03-16-12 24.45 Hinkelien Schreuder, NED Eindhoven Swim Cup Eindhoven 12-05-08 24.49 Alice Mills, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-19-05 24.50p Lara Jackson, USA/Arizona U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-05-08 (Note: first American record of career for 2008/’09 NCAA Division 1 50 yard freestyle champ on ’08 team champ Ariuzona)


24.50 Jessica Hardy, USA/Cal U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-02-12 (Note: Hardy’s second Trials win. Struck gold in 100 free earlier to earn first Olympic berth.. (Note: second-consecutive Trials 50-100 free champ. Ageless Dara Torres did it here four years ago, then silver in 50 free @ Beijing. Other U.S.women to have won both @ Trials include Angel Myers [1988], Amy Van Dyken [1996]. Myers’ times were subsequently vacated after failing a drug test while Van Dyken was a double individual gold-medalist [50 free, 100 fly] @ Atlanta Olympics. Torres and Jenny Thompson only women to win 50 twice, JT touching first in ’92 & ’04, DT in Y2K and again four years ago. (Note: world record-holder in 50-100 meter breaststrokes.) 24.51a Jingyi Le, CHN World Championships Rome 09-11-94 24,51 Dorothea Brandt, GER GER Nationals/WCTs Berlin 04-28-13 24.56 Zhesi Li, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-23-09 24.58sf1* Malia Metella, FRA World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Note: fastest-ever non-qualifying time for finals [ninth]) 24.59 Yingwen Zhu, CHN 10th National Games Nanjing 10-18-05 24.59 Kara-Lynn Joyce, USA/Georgia Toyota/Missouri Grand Prix Columbia 02-17-08 (Note: NCAA Division 1 50 yard freestyle champion, 2004-’07) 24.59 Bronte Campbell, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 05-03-13 (Note: runner-up finish means she and older sister Cate, 50-100 free winner, will boh same races @ World Championships.) 24.61sf2* Jeannette Ottesen, DEN World Championships Shanghai -7-30-11 24.63sf Sarah Sjostrom, SWE Swimcup Eindhoven Eindhoven 04-14-12 24.64sf1* Ariana Vanderpool-Wallace, BAH/Auburn Olympics London 08-03-12 (Note: 2K12 U.S. Open, NCAA Division 1 record-setter/gold-medalist, 100 yard freestyle. First Bahamian champion. (Note: first Caribbean woman World Championships finalist, any event [seventh], Shanghai, 2K11; first Caribbean woman Olympic finalist w/her sixth in semis here.) 24.68p* Alison Sheppard, SCO Commonwealth Games Manchester 08-02-02 24.69sf1 Svetlana Khakhlova, BLR World Championships Rome 08-01-09 24.71 Ying Shan, CHN 8th National Games Shanghai 10-19-97 24.72 Sandra Volker, GER GER Nationals/WCTs Braunschweig 05-16-01 24.72 Jodie Henry, AUS Commonwealth Games Melbourne 03-20-06 24.72sf1 Christine Magnuson, USA/Tennessee U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-01-12 24.74 Yolane Kukla, AUS Junior Pan-Pac Championships Maui 08-29-10 (Note: Championships record. (Note: fastest all-time by a 14-under girl. Comparable U.S. record: 25.34 Misy Franklin, 2009. Turned 14 09/29/10.) 24.75sf1* Victoria Poon, CAN World Championships Rome 08-01-09 24.76sf1*’ Arlene Semeco, VEN/Auburn World Championships Rome 08-01-09 24.76 Jiaying Pang, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-23-09 24.80 Michelle Engelsman, AUS/Kenyon AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 04-03-04 24.80 Amy Smith, GBR GBR Olympic Trials London 03-10-12 24.81 Li Yang, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-23-09 24.81 Yi Tang, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-23-09 24.85 Sally Foster, AUS AIS Invitational Canberra 11-26-09 24.87 Amy Van Dyken, USA/Colorado St. Olympics Atlanta 07-26-96 (Note: gold-medalist. Also won 100 butterfly gold – by .01!) 24.87 Marieke Guehrer, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-21-09 (Note: third womanv from same nation under 25.0 in same race. Second time in two years Asutralia has accomplished this feat and it is ONLY nation to do so. The Netherlands had four women under 25.0 in a meet last December, and they are the ONLY nation to achieve that milestone. Australia first put three under 25.0 @ its Olympic Trials a year earlier.) 24.88 Wang Junya, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-23-09 24.88 Olivia Halicek, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 04-08-11 24.89p Anne-Marie Botek, USA/Georgia U.S. Nationals/WCTs Indianapolis 07-09-09 24.90 Natalie Coughlin, USA/Cal Mesa Grand Prix Mesa 04-12-13 (Note: age 30! Olympic gold-medalist, 100 meter backstroke [2004, Athens; 2008, Beijing]) 24.91 Brittany Elmslie, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 05-03-13 24.93* Nery-Mantey Niangkoura, GRE XXXI European Championships Debrecen 05-27-12 (Note: first swimmer from a Mediterranean-area nation sub 25.0.) 24.93p Madison Kennedy, USA/Cal U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-01-12


100 METER FREESTYLE Top 50 Performances 52.07** Britta Steffen, GER World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 25.46, 52.7 [26.81]. (Note: Steffen’s fourth 100 free world record in same year [twice @ German Trials in June, twice @ Rome]. Most-ever. Australia’s Dawn Faser twice set three wrs in same year [1958, ‘62].) (Note: Steffen fifth German to win but all previous winners were from the German Democratic Republic [Kornelia Ender, 1973-’75; Barbara Krause, ’78; Birgit Meineke, ’82; Kristen Otto, ‘86]. (Note: Steffen has now won three of last four major international 100 free titles, i.e., 2006 Europeans, 2008 Olympics, 2009 World Chmpionships. Australia’s Lisbeth Trickett won 2007 World title. (Note: Steffen fourth woman to set 50-100 free world records in same competition, second @ a World Championships. Holland’s Inge de Bruijn [Speedo Super Grand Prix, Sheffield, 05/00/Sydney Olympics], Australia’s Libby Trickett [OlympicTrials, Sydney Olympic Pool, March’08] and China’s Jingyi le [1994 Worlds in Rome] others. 52.22r# Steffen World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 25.60, 52.22 [26.82]. (Note: leadoff leg on silver medal-winning 400 meter freestyle relay. Time was a world-record.) 52.56 Steffen GER Nationals/WCTs Berlin 06-27-09 (Splits: 25.30, 52.56 [27.26]) (Note: first woman to break 100 free wr twice in same competition since GDR’s Barbara Krause swam 54.98p/54.79 to win gold @ 1980 Olympics in Moscow [07/20-21/80]. Krause first woman under 55.0. And – like Ender – she too reputedly had a few extra “tigers” in her tank!) 52.62r*+ Libby Trickett, AUS World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 25.56, 52.62 [27.06]. (Note: leadoff leg on bronze-medal winning 400 meter freestyle relay. (Note: retired 12/15/09, then “unretired” January 2K11 and made ’12 Olympic Team as 400 free relay alternate.) 52.75* Ranomi Kromowidjojo, NED Swimcup Eindhoven Eindhoven 04-13-12 (Splits: 25.93, 52.75 [26.83]. (Note: fastest all-time textile. Third European woman sub 53.0, fourth overall, first from any nation in textile. (Note: no Friday the 13th “jinx” for her!) 52.83sf Cate Campbell, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 04-30-13 (Splits: 25.12, 52.83 [27.71]. (Note: Australian Open-“All Comers” record. Fastest all-time in Southern Hemisphere. Second performer-performance all-time Commonwealth.) 52.84sf1 Trickett World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 25.48, 52.84 [27.36]. (Note: fastest-ever qualifying [semi finals] time.) 52.85p Steffen GER Nationals/WCTs Berlin 06-25-09 (Splits: 25.81, 52.85 [27.04]) (Note: fastest-ever qualifying [prelims] time.) 52.87sf1 Steffen World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 25.85, 52.87 [27.02]) (Note: first time two women under 53.0 in same race.) 52.87* Francesca Halsall, GBR World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 25.62, 52.87 [27.25]. (Note: first – and ONLY – British medalist [silver]. First – and ONLY – British woman under 53.0.) 52.88 Trickett AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-27-08 Splits: 25.40, 52.88 [27.48]) (Note: formerly known as “Lenton.”) 52.89r Trickett JPN Dual Meet/”Duel in the Pool I” Canberra 05-09-09 (Splits: 25.29, 52.89 [27.60]) (Note: leadoff leg on mixed 400 free relay! Matthew Abood led off other relay in 49.41.) 52.92 Campbell AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 05-01-13 (Splits: 25.22, 52.92 [27.70]) 52.93 Trickett World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 25.23, 52.93 27.70])


52.95 Trickett JPN Dual Meet/”Duel in the Pool I” Canberra 05-08-09 (Splits: 25.55, 52.95 [27.40]. (Note: first woman to swim two sub 53.0 100 frees on same day/meet.) 52.99r Lenton USA Dual Meet/”Duel in the Pool III” Sydney 04-03-07 (Splits: 25.26, 52.99 [27.73]. (Note: opening split in mixed 400 meter freestyle relay. Michael Phelps [48.73] led off for USA.) 52.99 Lenton AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-19-09 (Splits: 25.39, 52.99 [27.60]) 53.00+ Kromowidjojo Olympics London 08-04-12 (Splits: 25.76, 53.00 [27.24]. (Note: her third gold, third Dutch winner. Countrywomen Rie Mastenbroek [1936, Berlin] and Inge de Bruijn [Sydney,Y2K] others. De Bruijn won in 53.83, just shy of her then world-record 53.77 from the semis. Kromowidjojo also swam on the Netherlands’ victorious 400 sprint relay @ Beijing [2K8]. (Note: Kromowidjojo fourth woman to sweep Olympic 50-100 frees. East Germany’s Kristen Otto [1988, Seoul]; Holland’s Inge de Bruijn [2000, Sydney] and Germany’s Britta Steffan [2008, Beijing] others. (Note: on cover of July 2012 Swimming World Magazine! No “cover jinx” for her!!!) 53.02pr Halsall World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 25.37, 53.02 [27.65]) 53.02sf2* Amanda Weir, USA/Georgia World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 26.26, 53.02 [26.76]) 53.03 Campbell AIS Invitational Canberra 11-27-09 (Splits: 25.49, 53.03 [38.54]. (Note: “world-record” 18-under [born 1992]) 53.05 Steffen Magdeburg Championships Magdeburg 07-18-08 (Splits: 25.56, 63.05 [26.49]) 53.05sf1 Halsall World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 25.54, 53.05 [27.51]) 53.05* Sarah Sjostrom, SWE NED Open Championships Eindhoven 12-04-11 (Splits: 26.13, 53.05 [26.92]) 53.05sf2 Kromowidjojo Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 25.75, 53.05 [27.30]. (Note: second-fastest performance all-time Olympics.) 53.09 Kromowidjojo 49th Sette Colli Internationale/Herbalife Rome 06-15-12 (Splits: 26.02, 53.09 [27.07]. (Note: meet-record.) 53.12 Steffen Olympics Beijing 08-15-08 (Splits: 26.04, 53.12 [27.08]. (Reaction Time: 0.78)

(Note: also won 50 free. Eighth @ 50! Second major 100 free title of career. Won 2006 European Championships in a then world-record 53.30. Only German medalist @ Beijing [m/f]) (Note: third woman to sweep both Olympic sprints. GDR’s Kristen Otto [1988] and the Netherlands’ Inge de Bruijn [2000] others. “Inky” only woman to set world records in both @ same Olympics.)

53.12 Weir World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Split; 25.97, 53.12 [27.16]) 53.13a Jiaying Pang, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-22-09 (Splits: 25.81, 53.13 [27.32]) 53.16 Trickett Olympics Beijing 08-15-08 (Splits: 25.18, 53.16 [27.96].

(Note: 50 split second-fastest all-time en route to 100 free. .Marlene Veldhuis [NED] split 25.15 en route to a then pr 53.70 @ 2007 World Chanmpionships. Trickett first @ 50 here.)53.17*

53.17 Marleen Veldhuis, NED Amsterdam Swim Cup Amsterdam 04-18-09 (Splits: 25.82, 53.17 [17.35]) 53.17 Campbell ZOOGS/Queensland St. Championships Brisbane 12-15-09 (Splits: 25.57, 53.17 [28.70]) 53.20 Steffen GER Olympic Trials Berlin 04-22-08 (Splits: 25.65, 53.20 [26.85])


53.20 Trickett 3rd Paris Open Paris 06-20-09 (Splits: 25.71, 53.20 [27.29]. (Note: meet//French Open/”All Comers” records.) 53.20p Weir World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 26.25, 53.20 [26.95]) 53.27 Trickett Arena Meeting de Canet/Mare Nsotrum Canet 06-11-09 (Splits: 25.31, t3.27 [27.96]. (Note: meet record.) 53.28p Yi Tang, CHN Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 25.81, 53.28 [27.47]) 53.29sf Sjostrom Swimcup Eindhoven Eindhoven 04-12-12 (Splits: 26.40, 53.29 [25.89]) 53.30 Steffen XXVIII European Championships Budapest 08-02-06 (Splits: 25.84, 53.30 [27.76]) (Note: first German woman freestyle wr-setter other than Fransizka van Almsick [200 free] since unification [1990]. First German 100 free wr-setter since GDR’s Kristen Otto swam 54.73 @ 1986 European Championships [Madrid, 08/19]) 53.30’ Campbell XLI Santa Clara International Invitational Santa Clara 05-16-08 (Splits: 25.92, 53.30 [27.38]) (Note: U.S. Open/Pacific Swimming-”All Comers” record.) 53.30 Dana Vollmer, USACal World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 25.88, 53.30 [27.42]. (Note: 2009 NCAA Division 1 100 yard freestyle champ for team champ Cal. (Note: Olympic gold-medalist/world record-seetter, 100 meter butterly [London, 2012]) 53.30 Kromowidjojo Amsterdam Swim Cup Amsterdam 03-18-12 (Splits: 26.26, 53.30 [27.04]) 53.30 Sjostrom Swimcup Eindhoven Eindhoven 04-13-12 (Splits: 26.22, 53.30 [27.08]) 53.31sf2 Kromowidjojo World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 26.15, 53.31 [27.16]) 53.31r Halsall World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 25.39, 53.31 [27.92]) 53.36r Trickett AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-21-09 (Splits: 25.70, 53.36 [27.66]) 53.37 Kromowidjojo World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 25.98, 53.37 [27.39]) 53.38r Steffen Olympics Beijing 08-09-08 (Splits: 25.91 53.38 [27.47]) 53.38sf1 Melanie Schlanger, AUS/Hawaii Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 26.19, 53.38 [27.19]) 53.38* Aleksandra Herasimenia, BLR Olympics London 08-02-12 (Splits: 25.22. 53.38 [28.16]. (Note: silver-medalist. 50 split all-time fastest en route to Olympic 100 free clocking.) Remaining Top 50 Performers 53.39 Natalie Coughlin, USA/Cal XLI Santa Clara International Grand Px. Santa Clara 05-15-08 (Splits: 25.71, 53.39 [27.68]. (Note: Olympic gold-medalist, 100 meter backstroke [Athens, 2004; Beijing, 2008]) 53.41sf1* Jeannette Ottesen, DEN World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 25.66, 53.41 [27.76]) 53.49* Malia Metella, FRA FRA Nationals/WCTs Montpellier 04-23-09 (Splits: 25.68, 53.49 [27.81]) 53.51 Camille Muffat, FRA FRA Nationals/WCTs Rennes 04-11-13 (Splits: 26.05, 53.51 [27.35]. (Note: fastest all-time by a Frenchwoman in textile. French 100 free record is 49.49 by Malia Metella from Y2K9 in a fullbody non-textile suit.) 53.52sfA Jodie Henry, AUS Olympics Athens 08-17-04 (Splits: 26.24, 53.52 [27.28])


53.52r Missy (The Missile) Franklin, USA Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 26.05, 53.52 [27.47]. (Note: 17-18 NAG record. Leadoff leg on bronze-medal winning 400 relay, her first Olympic medal.) 53.55* Federica Pellegrini, ITA ITA Winter Nationals Riccione 03-07-09 (Splits: 26.58, 53.55 [26.97]. (Note: world record-holder/2009-’11 World Champion, 200-400 meter freestyles.) 53.58r Therese Alshammar, SWE/Nebraska World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 25.48, 53.58 [28.10]) 53.60p* Hanna-Maria Seppala, FIN Olympics Beijing 08-13-08 (Splits: 25.93, 53.60 [27.67]) 53.60 Femke Heemskerk, NED 5th Open EDF de Natation Paris 06-26-11 (Splits: 26.10, 53.60 [27.50]) 53.61r Inge Dekker, NED World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 26.10, 53.61 [27.51]. (Note: leadoff leg on gold-medal winning/world record-setting 400 meter freestyle relay.) 53.72sf1* Evelyn Verraszto, HUN World Championships Rome 07-30-09f (Splits: 26.21, 53.74 [27.53]. (Note: daughter of Zoltan, former world record-holder, 400 meter Individual Medley [4:26.00, AAU Chmpionships, Long Beach, CA., 04/76. Verraszto never swam faster.) 53.72sf Bronte Campbell, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 04-30-13 (Splits: 25.70, 53.72 [28.02]) 53.73p* Ariana Vanderpool-Wallace, BAH/Auburn Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 25.60, 53.73 [28.13].

(Note: U.S. Open/NCAA Division 1 record-holder, 100 yard freestyle; 2K11-‘12 NCAA D1 champ, 100 yard freestyle. Also won 50 free in ‘11.)

53.76sf Dara Torres, USA/Florida U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-03-08 (Splits: 26.05, 53.76 [27.71])

(Note: fastest all-time for a swimmer 40+ [dob: 04/67]. Day later, Torres won 100 free final [53.78], becoming America’s first [and ONLY] quintuple U.S. Olympian, having swum on teams in 1984/’88/’92/Y2K. Oldest Olympic swim team member ever.)

53.76sf2 Daniela Schreiber, GER World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 26.01, 53.76 b[27.75]. (Note: fastest-ever non-qualifying time [ninth]) 53.77sf Inge de Bruijn, NED/Tualatin Hills SC Olympics Sydney 09-20-00 (Splits: 25.81, 53.77 [27.96]) 53.84sf1 Yingwen Zhu, CHN Olympics Beijing 08-14-08 (Splits: 26.16, 53.70 [27.54]. (Note: first Asian woman sub-54.0)

53.86sf1 Jessica Hardy, USA/Caal Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 26.02, 53.86 [27.84], 53.91sf2* Hayley Palmer, NZL World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 25.61, 53.91 [28.30]) 53.92 Megan Romano, USA/Georgia U.S. Open Indianapolis 08-07-12 (Splits: 26.19, 53.92 [27.73]. (Note: U.S. Open record. Eighth American woman sub 54.0. Most by any nation.) 53.96 Alice Mills, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-17-05 (Splits: 26.09, 53.96 [27.89]) 53.96 Li Zhe, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-22-09 (Splits: 26.08, 53.96 [27.88]. (Note: fourth swimmer from same nation under 54.0 in same meet. Firs [and ONLY] time-tie ever.) 53.96 Emily Seebohm, AUS Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-18-10 (Splits: 26.21, 53.96 [27.75]) 53.96 Allison Schmitt, USA/Georgia Longorn Invitational Elite Austin 06-01-12 (Splits: 26.52, 53.96 [27.44]. (Note: American record-holder, 200-400 meter freestyles. Olympic gold-medalist, 200 free [London, 2K12]) 53.97pr Celine Couderc, FRA Olympics Beijing 08-09-08 (Splits: 25.86, 53.97 [28.11])


54.00* Haruka Ueda, JPN JPN Olympic Trials Tokyo 04-06-12 (Splits: 26.04, 54.00 [27.96]) 54.01 Jingyi Le, CHN World Championships Rome 09-05-94 (Note: gold-medalist; time was then an Italian Open/”All Comers” record)

54.01 Amy Smith, GBR GBR Olympic Trials London 03-08-12 54.02 Lacey Nymeyer, USA/Arizona U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-03-08 54.02 Yolane Kukla, AUS Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-18-10 54.06 Pernille Blume, DEN DEN Open Championships Bronshoj 03-23-12 (Note: Danish Junior record.) 54.07 Jenny Thompson, USA/Stanford U.S. Olympic Trials Indianapolis 08-14-00 54.07p Josefina Lillhage, SWE Olympics Beijing 08-13-08 54.08sf1* Erica Morningstar, CAN World Championships Melbourne 03-29-07 54.08 Brittany Elmslie, AUS AUS Olympic Trials Adelaide 03-20-12 54.13pr Kara-Lynn Joyce, USA/Georgia Olympics Beijing 08-09-08 200 METER FREESTYLE Top 51 Performances 1:52.98** Federica Pellegrini, ITA World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Splits: 27.34, 55.60 [28.26], 1:24.38 [28.78], 1:52.98 [28.60]. (Note: 100 split fastest-ever en route to200 clocking. (Note: sixth world-record for “La Lioness de Verona” since 2007 World Championships, most-ever by any female. (Note: first to break world-record twice @ same World Championships. (Note: first woman to break world record on consecutive days. (Note: Australians Dawn Fraser/Shane Gould, USA’s Shirley Babashoff/ Cynthia Woodhead and East Germany’s Korelia Ender are tied for 200’s second-most career world records [three]) (Note: Pellegrini second woman to set wr @World Championships in Rome. Germany’s Franziska Van Almsick swam 1:56.78 to win the 7th global meet [1994]. (Note: Pelligrini fourth woman to swim wr @ a World Championships. Others include USA’s Cynthia Woodhead [1:58.53, West Berlin, 1978; France’s Laure Manadou, 1:55.52, Melbourne, 2007. (Note: time .20 off Mark Spitz’ Munich Olympic gold-medal winning world-record of 1:52.78 and faster than Spitz’s old wr of 1:53.5 from previous year. (Note: Pelligrini also world record-holder [scm], 1:51.17, European Championships, Istanbul, 12-13-09.) 1:53.61*+# Allison Schmitt, USA/Georgia Olympics London 07-31-12 (Splits: 27.18, 55.38 [28.20], 1:24.35 [28.97], 1:53.61 [29.26]. (Note: fastest all-time textile, fastest opening 100 split all-time. (Note: Schmitt’s first Olympic gold/record. Won silver in 400 free three days earlier plus bronze in 400 FR. (Note: first ‘Dawg individual gold-medalist, either sex. (Note: fourth U.S. winner since event’s introduction into Olympic program in 1968. Debbie Meyer won inaugural title, followed by Mary Wayte [1984], Nicole Haislett [1992] and Schmitt. Wayte and Haislett were both All-Americas/ NCAA champs for the University of Florida and Schmitt is a multi NCAA champ/record-holder for the ‘Dawgs. (Note: U.S.’ four golds most by any nation. Australia has won twice as did the old GDR.) (Note: 2K13 NCAA Division 1 200 free gold-medalist for ‘Dawgs’ team champions. 1:53.67sf1 Pellegrini World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 27.15, 55.82 [28.67], 1:24.77 [28.95], 1:53.67 [28.72]) 1:54.40 Schmitt U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-28-12 (Splits: 27.01, 55.61 [28.60], 1:24.89 [29.28], 1:54.40 [29.51]) 1:54.47 Pellegrini ITA Winter Nationals Riccione 03-08-09 (Splits: 27.31, 56.05 [28.74], 1:25.63 [29.58], 1:54.47 [28.84]) (Note: all-time fastest/earliest, first woman to break world-record in three-consecutive years.) 1:54.66* Camille Muffat, FRA XXV EME Mtng. De Canet/Mare Nostrum Canet 06-06-12 (Splits: 27.18, 56.39 [29.211], 1:25.57 [29.43], 1:54.66 [29.09]. (Note: meet/Mare Nostrum Series/French Open-“All Comers” records. (Note: world record-holder, 200 free [scm], 1:51.65, FRA Nationals, Angers, 11-18-12.)


1:54.82 Pellegrini Olympics Beijing 08-13-08 (Splits: 27.27, 55.92 [28.65], 1:25.57 [29.65], 1:54.82 [29.25]) (Note: first and only Italian female world/Olympic record-setter/gold-medalist.

(Note: first woman to set 200 free wr in consecutive years since American Cynthia Woodhead did it thrice during 1978-’79. Woodhead first broke wr w/a 1:58.53 @’78 World Championships in West Berlin. She cut it to 1:58.33 following summer @ Pan Am Games [San Juan, Puerto Rico], then again September 1 in Tokyo at FINA Cup [1:58.23].

(Note: only Italian male to set a freestyle wr is Giorgio Lamberti, who coincidentally did it in 200 free [1:46.69] @ 1989 European Championships in Bonn. Record lasted nearly a decade until Australian Grant Hackett swam 1:46.67 @ Oz Nationals in Brisbane, March 23, 1999.) 1:54.87 Muffat FRA Olympic Trials Dunkirk 03-21-12 (Splits: 27.10, 56.34 [29.24], 1:25.47 [29.13], 1:54.87 [29.40]) 1:54.96 Schmitt World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Splits: 27.54. 56.31 [26.77], 1:25.73 [29.42], 1:56.96 [29.23]. (Note: first American record of career, first major international medal [silver] and first time on a major {Olympics/Worlds} national team for 2010 NCAA Division 1 200 yard freestyle champion.) 1:54.97* Sara Isakovic, SLO/Cal Olympics Beijing 08-13-08 (Splits: 27.95, 56.86 [28.91], 1:26.03 [29.17], 1:54.97 [28.94]) (Note: first Slovenian medalist [silver] for either sex.

(Note: seven months later, Isakovic helped lead Cal to its first-ever women’s \NCAA Division 1 team championships. She won dos mas national-collegiate team championships by end of her senior season [March 2K12] and also won her sole NCAA individual title by splashing to gold in the 100-yard butterfly @ that meet.)

1:55.04 Schmitt Longhorn Invitational Elite Austin 06-02-12 (Splits: 27.01, 55.97 [28.96], 1:25.73 [29.76], 1:55.04 [29.31]. 1:55.05a Jiaying Pang, CHN Olympics Beijing 08-13-08 (Splits: 27.01, 56.43 [29.42], 1:26.29 [29.86], 1:55.05 [28.76]) (Note: China’s first Olympic freestyle medal [bronze] since Jingyi Le won 100 @ Atlanta [1996])) 1:55.06r Missy (The Missile) Franklin, USA World Championships Shanghai 07-28-11 (Splits: 27.09, 56.44 [29.35], 1:25.82 [28.08], 1:55.06 [29.24]. (Note: leadoff leg on USA’s gold-medal winning 800 free relay. (Note: FASTER than La Lioness de Verona’s gold-medal winning 200 free clocking [1:55.58]. (Note: 15-16 NAG record.) 1:55.21 Muffat XXX EME Mtg. de Monaco/Mare Nostrm.Monte Carlo 06-10-12 (Splits: 27.96, 57.86 [29.90], 1:27.35 [29.51], 1:55.21 [27.86]. (Note: meeting record. Old record: 1:56.42, Muffat, prelims.) 1:55.23* Sarah Sjostrom, SWE GBR Olympic Trials London 03-05-12 (Splits: 26.71, 56.09 [29.28], 1:25.54 [29.45], 1:55.23 [29.69]. (Note: time was then a British Open/”All Comers” record. Set similar standard in 100 fly [56.79] day earlier.) 1:55.29sf2 Dana Vollmer, USA/Cal World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 27.09, 56.28 [2.19], 1:25.60 [9.32], 1:55.29 [29.69]. (Note: 2009 NCAA Division 1 gold-medalist, 200 yard freestyle. Also won 100 free and along with teammates Sara Isakovic and others led Cal to NCAA team championship. Bears now match Pac-10 rivals

Stanford, USC and Arizona for having won both women’s and men’s NCAA Championships. Cal won itwo men’s titles in 1979-’80 under then Coach Nort Thornton and in 2K11 won BOTH women’s and men’s NCAAs, matching Arizona’s feat of three years earlier. Da’ Bears retained both titles following season.)

1:55.29r Vollmer World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 27.46, 56.84 [29.38], 1:26.45 [29.51], 1:55.29 [28.84]. (Note: leadoff leg on American record-setting/silver-medal winning 800 meter freestyle relay. Finished runner-up to China, which set a world-record in winning the gold. USA’s overall time was also under old wr but still second b y 0.48. (Note: fastest leadoff leg of race.) 1:55.40sf Muffat FRA Olympic Trials Dunkirk 03-20-12 (Splits: 26.59, 55.71 [29.12], 1:25.39 [29.68], 1:55.40 [30.01]) 1:55.45p Pellegrini Olympics Beijing 08-11-08 (Splits: 27.81, 57.04 [29.23], 1:26.53 [29.49], 1:55.4528.92)) (Note: broke Olympic record of 1:57.65 by East Germany’s Heike Friedrich from Seoul Game [1988])


1:55.45 Pellegrini XXX European Championships Budapest 08-13-10 (Splits: 27.88, 57.16 [29.28[, 1:26.42 [29.26], 1:55.45 [19.03].

(Note: Championships record. First woman to hold this “Triple Crown,” i.e., Olympic, World Championships and European Championships records simultaneously. West Germany’s Michael Gross held the same record trio in `1986 when he “owned” the World Championshp 200 free mark [1:47.92], the European Championship record [1:47.87] and the Olympic record [1:47.44]. Pellegrini also holds same trio in the 400 meter freestye.)

1:55.47r Yu Yang, CHN World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 27.22, 56.56 [29.34], 1:26.52 [29.96], 1:55.47 [28.95]. (Note: leadoff leg on world record-setting/gold-medal winning 800 meter freestyle relay Overall time [7:42.08] broke the old world-record set by Australia at the Beijing Olympics [7:44.31]). 1:55.48 Muffat FRA Nationals/WCTs Rennes 04-14-13 (Splits: 27.11, 56.58 [29.47[, 1:25.88 [29.30], 1:55.48 [29.60]. 1:55.51r Muffat Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 27.08, 56.37 [29.29], 1:25.77 [29.40], 1:55.51 [29.74]. (Note: fastest leadoff leg of race enables La Belle France to win bronze-medal. Muffat now has a medal of every color [gold, 400 free; silver, 200 free; bronze, 800 free relay.)

1:55.52 Laure Manaudou, FRA World Championships Melbourne 03-28-07 (Splits: 27.13, 56.24 [29.11], 1:25.69 [27.45], 1:55.52 [29.83]) 1:55.54sf*+ Joanne Jackson, GBR World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 27.58., 56.65 [29.07], 1:26.36 [29.71], 1:56.54 [29.18]) 1:55.54sf1* Femke Heemskerk, NED World Championships Shanghai 07-26-11 (Splits: 26.90, 55.56 [28.66], 1:25.27 [29.71], 1:55.54 [30.27]) (Note: .04 FASTER than Pellegrini’s winning time!) 1:55.58 Pellegrini World Championships Shanghai 07-27-11 (Splits: 27.62, 57.04 [29.42], 1:26.18 [29.14], 1:55.58 [29.40]. (Note: second-consecuive gold. Only double champion. (Note: has now won Olympics 200 free [2008], World Championships [2K9], European Championships [2K10], World

Championships [again! – 2K11]. Second woman to achieve this”quadruple crown.” France’s Laure Manadou won 2K4 Olympic400 free, 2K4-6 European Championships and 2K7 Worlds. West Germany’s Michael Gross

actually went them one better, winning 200 free World Championships golds in 1982 [Guayaquil] and 1986 [Madrid]; the Olympics in Los Angeles [1932! – no, not quite, 52 years later in 1984] AND the European Championships in ’83-’85. Herr Gross also struck Olympic 200 fly gold @ Seoul in’88, making up for his loss to Aussie Jon Sieben in Los Angeles. USA’s Michael Phelps had a similar streak in the 200 fly, i.e., 01-‘03/’07- ’11 World Championships (5), ’08 Olympics and ’06, ’10 Pan-Pacs. Phelps didn’t swim this race in ’05 [Montreal].) 1:55.58 Muffat Olympics London 07-31-12 (Splits: 27.15, 56.38 [29.23], 1:25.92 [29.54], 1:55.38 [29.44]. (Note: second Olympic medal [silver]. Won gold two daysearlier in 400 free.) 1:55.59sf2 Schmitt U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-27-12 (Splits: 27.50, 56.33 [28.83], 1:25.94 [29.61], 1:55.59 [29.65]. (Note: Trials record.) 1:55.64 Vollmer World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Splits: 27.23, 56.21 [28.98], 1:25.71 [29.50], 1:5564 [29.93]) 1:55.68* Annika Lurz, GER World Championships Melbourne 03-28-07 (Splits: 27.06, 56.51 [29.45], 1:25.96 [29.45], 1:55.68 [29.72]) 1:55.69sf Muffat FRA Nationals/WCTs Rennes 04-13-13 (Splits: 26.88, 55.80 [28.92], 1:25.51 [29.71], :55.69 [30.18]) 1:55.73* Kylie Palmer, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 04-04-11 (Splits: 27.65, 56.85 [29.20], 1:26.18 [29.33], 1:55.73 [29.55]) 1:55.74 Bronte Barratt, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 04-04-11 (Splits: 27.66, 56.93 [29.27], 1:26.29 [29.46], 1:55.74 [29.35]) 1:55.76r Barratt Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 27.53, 56.56 [29.03], 1:26.02 [29.46], 1:55.76 [29.74])

1:55.78 Katie Hoff, USA Olympics Beijing 08-13-08 (Splits: 27.57, 56.67 [29.10], 1:26.20 [29.53], 1:55.78 [29.58]) 1:55.81 Barratt Olympics London 07-31-12 (Splits: 27.52, 56.52 [29.00], 1:26.16 [29.64], 1:55.81 [29.65])


1:55.82 Schmitt Minneapolis Grand Prix Minneapolis 11-11-11 (Splits: 27.62, 56.67 [29.15], 1:26.10 [29.43], 1:55.82 [29.72].

(Note: meet-record. (Note: Minnesota Swimming Open/”All Comers” record.)

1:55.82 Franklin Olympics London 07-31-12 (Splits: 27.02, 56.23 [29.21], 1:25.96 [29.73], 1:55.82 [29.86]) 1:55.83 Schmitt USA Grand Prix Austin 01-14-12 (Splits: 27.94, 57.42 [29.48], 1:36.95 [29.53], 1:55.83 [28.88]. (Note: fastest all-time, ANY year, prior to March 8.) 1:55.86p Isakovic Olympics Beijing 08-11-08 (Splits: 27.94, 57.36 [29.42], 1:26.82 [29.46], 1:55.86 [29.04]) 1:55.88 Hoff U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-02-08 (Splits: 27.56, 56.62 [29.06], 1:26.04 [29.42], 1:55.88 [29.84])

1:55.88 Jackson World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Splits: 27.52, 56.78 [29.26], 1:26.36 [29.58], 1:55.88 [29.52])

1:55.90 Isakovic CRO Nationals Dubrovnik 07-14-08 (Splits: 27.58, 56.64 [29.06], 1:26.02 [28.38], 1:55.90 [29.88])

1:55.92 Schmitt U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-02-08 (Splits: 27.60, 57.03 [29.43], 1:26.68 [29.65], 1:55.92 [29.24].

(Note: 17-18 NAG record.) 1:55.95 Muffat FRA Nationals/WCTs Strasbourg 03-26-11 (Splits: 27.68, 56.96 [29.28], 1:26.68 [29.72], 1:55.95 [29.27])

1:55.96r Franklin Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 26.87, 55.87 [29.00], 1:25.75 [29.88], 1:55.96 [30.21]. (Note: leadoff leg on USA’s gold-medal wining/Olympic record-setting 800 FR. Fourth gold for Uncle Sam in the five Olympiads the race has been swum, starting in Atlanta [1996]. Australia’s world record-setting win @ Beijing only time USA has not “brung home the bacon.” (Note: Franklin’s second gold/scond Olympic record. Won 100 back earlier.)

1:55.98r Jackson World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 27.58, 56.81 [29.23], 1:26.74 [29.93], 1:55.98 [29.24])

1:55.98p Vollmer World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 27.51, 56.85 [29.34], 1:26.56 [29.71], 1:55.98 [29.32])

1:55.99 Muffat Pre-Olympic Trials Invitational Nice 02-18-12 (Splits: 27.63, 56.98 [29.29], 1:26.66 [29.68], 1:55.99 [29.42])

1:55.99 Barratt AUS Olympic Trials Adelaide 03-17-12 (Splits: 27.48, 56.79 [29.31], 1:26.54 [29.68], 1:56.04 [29.50])

Remaining Top 50 Performers 1:56.05pr Ariana Kukors, USA/Washington World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 27.58. 56.71 [28.13], 1:26.47 [29.76], 1:56.05 [29.58]. (Note: world record-holder/2009 World Champion, 200 meter Individual Medley.) 1:56.33r Liu Jing, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-21-09 (Splits: 27.46, 57.08 [2.62], 1:26.99 [29.91], 1:56.33 [29.34]) 1:56.43r Natalie Coughlin, USA/Cal World Championships Melbourne 03-29-07 (Splits: 27.09, 57.55 [28.46], 1:26.69 [29.14], 1:56.43 [29.74]. (Note: leadoff leg on world record-setting 800 meter freestyele relay. 1:56.47sf1* Agnes Mutina, HUN World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 27.36, 57.05 [29.69], 1:27.06 [30.01], 1:56.4729.41]) 1:56.51sf1 Evelyn Verraszto, HUN World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 27.21, 56.74 [29.53], 1:26.95 [30.21], 1:56.51 [29.56]) 1:56.57r Coralie Balmy, FRA Olympics Beijing 08-14-08 (Splits: 27.55, 56.89 [29.34], 1:27.01 [29.12], 1:56.57 [29.56]) (Note: fastest leadoff leg of race.)


1:56.60r Stephanie Rice, AUS Olympics Beijing 08-14-08 (Splits: 27.45, 56.98 [29.57], 1:26.94 [29.96], 1:56.60 [29.64]) (Note: leadoff leg on world-record-setting, gold-medal winning 800 free relay. (Note: Rice had earleier won golds and set wrs in 200-400 IMs. Treble gold-medalist world record-setter)) 1:56.62sf2 Caitlin McClatchey, GBR World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 27.63, 57.64 [30.01], 1:27.44 [29.0], 1:56.62 [29.18]. (Note: fastest-ever non-finalist [ninth]). 1:56.64 Franziska Van Almsick, GER XXVI European Championships Berlin 08-03-02 (Splits: 27.14, 56.27 [29.13], 1:26.33 [30.06], 1:56.64 [30.31]. (Note: Olympic silver-medalist, 200 meter freestyle [1992, Barcelona; 1996, Atlanta]) 1:56.65 Qianwei Zhu, CHN 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 11-13-10 (Splits: 27.22, 56.74 [29.52], 1:26.84 [30.10], 1:56.65 [29.81]. (Note: Games record.) 1:56.66p Rebecca Adlington, GBR GBR Olympic Trials Sheffield 04-05-08 (Splits: 27.70, 57.43 [29.73], 1:27.30 [29.87], 1:56.66 [30.36]) 1:56.73 Julia Smit, USA/Stanford U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-02-08 (Splits: 27.78, 57.26 [29.48], 1:27.13 [29.87], 1:56.73 [29.60]. (Note: third woman from same country under 1:57.0 in same race. Unprecedented!) 1:56.73 Melanie Schlanger, AUS/Hawaii AUS Olympic Trials Adelaide 03-17-12 (Splits: 27.28, 57.06 [29.78], 1:26.97 [29.91], 1:56.73 [29.76])

1:56.77 Emma McKeon, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 04-29-13 (Splits: 27.34, 56.72 [29.38], 1:26.69 [29.97], 1:56.77 [30.08]. (Note: older brother David won 400 free and was runner-up in 200 free earlier in meet. McKeon’s third-place finish means she’ll join him on plane to Barcelona in July [World Championships]) 1:56.82 Yi Tang, CHN CHN Nationals Beijing 08-29-09 (Splits: 28.68, 57.18 [28.71], 1:27.37 [30.19], 1:56.82 [29.45]) 1:56.84sf1* Veronika Popova, RUS Olympics London 07-30- (Splits: 27.61, 56.79 [29.18], 1:26 (Splits: 27.48, 56.77 [29.29], 1:26.81 [30.04], 1:56.84 [30.03])

1:56.87* Camelia Potec, ROU Olympics Beijing 08-13-08 (Splits: 27.81, 58.32 [30.51], 1:27.20 [29.88], 1:56.87 [29.67]. (Note: defending champ finishes fifth.) 1:56.89 Bin Lu, CHN World Championships Rome 09-06-94

(Splits: 27.22, 56.62 [29.40], 1:26.82 [30.20], 1:56.89 [30.07]) 1:56.93 Katie Ledecky, USA Arena Grand Prix Mesa 04-12-13 (Splits: 28.19, 57.45 [29.28], 1:27.57 [30.12], 1:56.93 [29.36]. (Note: Olympicgold-medalist, 800 meter freestyle [London, 2K122]. (Note: old career-best, 1:58.68, Olympic Trials, July 2K12. (Note: time makes her second performer-performace all-time 15-16 girls.) 1:56.97r* Genevieve Saumur, CAN World Championshis Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 27.41, 57.04 [29.63], 1:26.58 [29.54], 1:56.97 [30.39]) 1:56.98 Silke Lippok, GER XXX European Championships Budapest 08-13-10 (Splits: 28.75, 56.19 [29.44], 1:25.93 [25.73], 1:56.98 [31.05]) 1:56.99 Linda MacKenzie, AUS AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-25-08 (Splits: 27.62, 57.83 [30.21], 1:27.90 [30.07], 1:56.99 [29.09]) 1:57.00sf1 Inge Dekker, NED World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 27.62, 57.15 [29.63], 1:27.13 [29.98], 1:57.00 [29.87]) 1:57.04* Kirsty Coventry, ZIM/Auburn Texas Sr. Circuit Championships No. 4 Austin 06-07-08 (Splits: 27.34, 56.72 [29.38], 1:26.86 [30.14], 1:57.04 [30.18]) (Note: African/Texas Swimming Center/Longhorn Aquatics/South Texas Swimming records. (Note: world record-holder, double Olympic gold-medalist, 200 meter backstroke [2004, Athens; 2008, Beijing]) 1:57.06r Lisbeth Lenton, AUS World Championships Montreal 07-28-05 (Splits: 26.90, 56.49 [29.59], 1:26.58 [30.09], 1:57.06 [30.48]) 1:57.13 Morgan Scroggy, USA/Georgia Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-19-10 (Splits: 27.95, 57.59 [29.64], 1:27.40 [29.81], 1:57.13 [29.73]) 1:57.15r* Otylia Jedrzejczak, POL XXVIII European Championships Budapest 08-03-06 (Splits: 28.47, 58.73 [30.26], 1:28.12 [29.55], 1:57.15 [29.03]. (Note: Olympic gold-medalist, 200 meter butterfly [Athens, 2004]; World Champion, 2003-‘05]))


1:57.15 Brittany Elmslie, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 04-29-13 (Splits: 27.32, 56.67 [29.35], 1:26.53 [29.86], 1:57.15 [30.62]) 1:57.16p Michelle Coleman, SWE AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 04-28-13 (Splits: 26.79, 56.03 [29.24], 1:26.23 [30.20], 1:57.16 [30.93]) 1:57.20 Heather MacLean, CAN CAN Nationals/WCTs Montreal 07-08-09 (Splits: 27.73, 57.51 [29.78], 1:27.12 [2961], 1:57.20 [30.08]. (Note: first Canadian woman sub 1:58.0.) 1:57.20 Jade Neilsen, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 04-04-11 (Splits: 27.58, 57.34 [29.76], 1:27.25 [29.21], 1:57.20 [29.65]) 1:57.27 Shijia Wang, CHN CHN Olympic Trials Shaoxing 04-04-12 (Splits: 29.03, 58.47 [29.44], 1:27.98 [29.41], 1:57.27 [29.29]) 1:57.27 Blair Evans, AUS Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-19-10 (Splits: 27.83, 57.76 [29.93], 1:27.74 [299.98], 1:57.27 [29.53[) 1:57.30 Yan Chen, CHN 8th National Games Shanghai 10-14-97 400 METER FREESTYLE Top 50 Performances 3:59.15** Federica Pellegrini, ITA World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 58.66, 1:59.42 [1:00.76], 2:59.93 [1:00.51], 3:59.15 [59.22].

(Note: third world-record in this event. Most-ever in any single event by any Italian woman and most-ever by any European since adoption by FINA of world records in 50 meter pools as of 05/57. American Debbie Meyer with five has most overall. (Note: two days later [07/28] “La Lioness de Verona” broke her own 200 free world-record in semis, then broke it again to win gold the following day. America’s Shirley Babashoff [Belgrade, 1973] and East Germany’s Heike Friedrich [Madrid, 1986] and Laure Manaudou [Melbourne, 2K7] other women to have won both golds @ same World Championships.

(Note: time .97 slower than current University of Arizona assistant coach Rick DeMont’’s 358.18 World recordd from the first World Championships in Belgrade [0973] when he became first swimmer under 4:00.0.) 4:00.41# Pellegrini XVI Mediterranean Games Pescara 06-27-09 (Splits: 58.50, 1:59.24 [1:00.74], 3:00.16 [1:00.92], 4:00.41 [1:00.25]. (Note: also 400 free wr-holder. First woman to hold both records simultaneously since France’s Laure Manadau [2006-‘07].

(Manaudou set 400 free wr @ European Championships in Budapest 08/05/06, then broke 200 free standard following March at World Championships in Melbourne, [1:55.52, 03/28/07]. (Note: seventh woman to hold 200-400 free wrs simultaneously. Others: Lorraine Crapp, AUS; Debbie Meyer, USA; Shane Gould, AUS; Shirley Babashoff, USA; Barbara Krause, GDR; Manaudou.)

4:00.60*+ Joanne Jackson, GBR World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 58.77, 1:59.91 [1:01.14], 3:00.84 [1:00.93], 4:00.60 [59.76]) 4:00.66 Jackson GBR Nationals Sheffield 03-16-09 (Splits: 58.49, 2:00.35 [1:01.86], 3:00.93 [1:00.58], 4:00.66 [59.73])

(Note: first British woman to set world-record in a 50 meter pool. Eighth nation overall. First time a British woman has ever broken another British woman’s Commonwealth record. Old CR: 4:02.24 by Rebecca Adlington from prelims of Beijing Olympics [2008].

Second-earliest breaking of wr. Earliest: 4:09.39, Tracey Wickham, AUS, Brisbane [AUS Nationals], 02/24/77) 4:00.79 Rebecca Adlington, GBR World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 59.05, 2:00.06 [1:01.01], 3:01.27 [1:01.21], 4:00.79 [59.52]) (Note: first – ONLY -- time three women ALL under 4:01.0 in same race!) 4:00.89 Adlington GBR Nationals/WCTs Sheffield 03-16-09 (Splits: 58.71, 2:00.50 [1:01.79], 3:01.43 [1:01.93], 4:00.89 [58.46]. (Note: final 100 split [58.46] fastest-ever.

(Note: second time two woman from same country under old world-record in same race and first time two women under 4:01.00.)

4:01.13* Camille Muffat, FRA FRA Olympic Trials Dunkirk 03-19-12 (Splits: 58.37, 1:59.34 [1:01.97], 3:00.84 [1:01.50], 4:01.13 [1:00.29]. (Note: fastest all-time textile. (Note: world record-holder, 400 m free [scm], 3:54.85, European Championships, Chartres, 11/24/12.) 4:01.45+ Muffat Olympics London 07=29-12 (Splits: 57.83, 1:59.50 [1:01.67], 3:00.67 [1:02.17], 4:01.45 [1:01.78]. (Note: first Olympic gold, second French champion. Laure Manadou won @ Athens [2K4].)


4:01.53 Pellegrini XXIX European Championships Eindhoven 03-24-08 (Splits: 59.01, 1:59.60 [1:00.59], 3:00.41 [59.81], 4:01.53 [1:01.12]. (Note: first Italian woman to set 400 free world-record. Fifth nation overall.) 4:01.77* Allison Schmitt, USA/Georgia Olympics London 07=29-12 (Splits: 58.11, 1:59.88 [1:01.77], 3:01.11 [1:01.23], 4:01.77 [1:00.66]. (Note: first individual Olympic medal [silver]/lcm AR. Would win gold in 200 free two days later, then add a second gold the following day anchoring USA’s 800 free relay – which set an Olympic record.) 4:01.96p Pellegrini World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 57.84, 1:58.88 [1:01.04], 3:05.50 [1:06.62], 4:01.96 [56.46]. (Note: fastest-ever qualifying time.) 4:01.97 Pellegrini World Championships Shanghai 07-24-11 (Splits: 59.77, 2:02.30 [1:02.53], 3:02.60 [1:00.30], 4:01.97 [59.37]. (Note: Pellegrini has now won four major international 400 titles in last four years, i..e., 2K8 Europeans @ Eindhoven, 2K9 World Championships @ Rome, 2K10 Europeans @ Budapest and 2K11 Worlds [Shanghai]. Other women swimmers who have had similar 400 streaks include USA’s Janet Evans [’88 Olympics, ’89 Pan-Pacs, ’90 Goodwill Games, ’91 Worlds, ’91 Pan-Pacs]; and France’s Laure Manadou [’04-’06 Europeans, ’04 Olympics, ’05-’07 Worlds]) (Note: largest winning margin ever [2.04 seconds]) 4:02.13 Laure Manaudou, FRA XXVIII European Championships Budapest 08-06-06 (Splits: 57.81, 1:59.11 [1:01.30], 3:01.16 [1:02.05], 4:02.13 [1:00.97]) 4:02.19p Pellegrini Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 57.75, 1:58.38 [1:00.63], 3:00.62 [1:02.24], 4:02.19 [1:01.57]. (Note: fastest-ever 200 en route to 400 free clocking.) 4:02.20 Katie Hoff, USA Toyota/Missouri Grand Prix Columbia 02-16-08 (Splits: 58.91, 1:59.39 [1:00.59], 3:00.85 [1:01.46], 4:02.20 [1:01.35]. (Note: 17-18 NAG record.) 4:02.24p Adlington Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 58.90, 1:59.84 [59.94], 3:01.38 [1:01.54], 4:02.24 [1:01.86]) 4:02.32 Hoff U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-30-08 (Splits: 59.33, 2:01.60 [1:02.27], 3:02.71 [1:01.11], 4:02.32 [59.61]) (Note: Trials record.) 4:02.35a Qian Chen, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-23-09 (Splits: 58.85, 2:00.04 [1:01.19], 3:01.28 [1:01.24], 4:02.35 [1:01.07]) 4:02.35 Adlington GBR Olympic Trials London 03-04-12 (Splits: 58.63, 1:59.97 [1:01.34], 3:01.75 [1:01.78], 4:02.35 [1:00.60]) 4:02.51 Schmitt World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 59.62, 2:00.96 [1:00.34], 3:01.70 [1:00.74], 4:01.51 [59.81]. (Note: fastest-ever non-medal winning time [fourth]. (Note: 2009-‘11 NCAA Division 1 500 yard freestyle champion.) 4:02.61 Manaudou World Championships Melbourne 03-25-07 (Splits: 57.34, 1:58.69 [1:01.35], 3:01.10 [1:02.41], 4:02.61 [1:01.51]. (Note: 200 split second-fastest-ever en route to 400 free clocking.) 4:02.80 Adlington GBR Nationals Liverpool 07-13-08 (Splits: 1:00.05, 2:01.41 [1:01.36], ------, 3:32.92 [350], 4:02.80 [29.88 final 50]) 4:02.80p Schmitt World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 58.88, 2:00.10 [1:01.22], 3:01.59 [1:01.49], 4:02.80 [1:01.21]) 4:02.84 Adlington GBR Nationals/WCTs Manchester 03-05-11 (Splits: 59.67, 2:01.77 [1:02.10], 3:02.88 [1:02.11], 4:02.84 [59.96]) 4:02.84 Schmitt U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-26-12 (Splits: 57.50, 1:58.34 [1:00.84], 3:00.39 [1:02.05], 4:02.84 [1:02.45]) 4:02.93 Pellegrini XLVI RomAquatica/Sette Colli InvitationalRome 06-06-08 (Splits: 58.84, 2:00.27 [1:01.43], 3:01.79 [1:01.72], 4:02.93 [1:01.14]) 4:02.97 Muffat XXV EME Mtng. De Canet/Mare NostrumCanet 06-07-12 (Splits: 1:01.09, 2:04.43[1:03.32], 3:04.01 [59.58], 4:02.97 [58.96]. (Note: meet/Mare Nostrum Series records.)


4:03.01 Adlington Olympics London 07=29-12 (Splits: 58.97, 2:00.90 [1:01.93], 3:02.79 [1:01.89], 4:03.01 [1:01.22]. (Note: defending champ wins bronze.) 4:03.03 Manaudou FRA Nats./European Championship Trials Tours 05-12-06

(Splits: 58.30 [30.27], 2:00.00 [1:01.30], 3:02.07 [1:02.07], 4:03.03 [1:00.96]) 4:03.21 Muffat National Open de Montpellier Mpntpellirt 02-04-12 (Splits: 1:00.36, 2:01.75 [1:01.43], 3:03.08 [1:01.33], 4:03.21 [1:00.13]) 4:03.12 Pellegrini XLVII Sette Colli Internazinalevd’Italia Pescara 06-17-10 (Splits: 1:00.32, 2:01.77 [1:01.45], 3:03.04 [1:01.27], 4:03.12 [1:00.08]. 4:03.22 Adlington Olympics Beijing 08-11-08 (Splits: 59.35, 2:01.56 [1:02.21], 3:03.36 [1:01.80], 4:03.22 [59.86]) (Note: first British women’s Olympic gold-medalist since Anita Lonsborough [Rome, 1960, 200 breast]) 4:03.23 Muffat 5th Open EDF de Natation Paris 06-26-11 (Splits: 59.27, 2:01,13 [1:01.86], 2:01.98 [1:01.85], 4:03.23 [1:00.25]. (Note: meet/pool records. Second performer-performance all-time France.) 4:03.29 Hoff Olympics Beijing 08-11-08 (Splits: 59.19, 2:01.05 [1:01.86], 3:01.91 [1:00.86], 4:03.29 [1:01.38]) 4:03.29 Coralie Balmy, FRA World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 58.31, 2:00.63 [1:02.32], 3:02.26 [1:01.63], 4:03.29 [[1:01.03]) 4:03.29p Muffat Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 58.52, 2:00.55 [1:02.03], 3:01.65 [1:01.10], 4:03.29 [[1:02.68]) 4:03.31p Schmitt Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 58.35, 1:59.21 [1:01.86], 3:00.93 [1:01.72], 4:03.31 [[1:02.38]) 4:03.38 Manaudou FRA Nationals Saint-Raphael 06-26-07 (Splits: 58.36, 1:59.88 [1:01.52], 3:02.23 [1:02.35], 4:03.38 [1:01.15]) 4:03.40* Kylie Palmer, AUS AUS Olympic Trials Adelaide 103-15-12 (Splits: 59.78, 2:01.28 [1:01.50], 3:02.87 [1:01.59], 4:03.40 [1:00.53]. (Note: second NR of career; won 200 free @ last year’s WCTs to set first record. First Olympic berth.) 4:03.41* Camelia Potec, ROU World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 59.34, 2:00.90 [1:02.56], 3:02.39 [1:01.49], 4:03.41 [1:01.02]) 4:03.48p Jackson World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 58.74, 2:00.58 [1:02.84], 3:02.25 [1:01.67], 4:03.48 [1:01.23]) 4:03.49 Pellegrini ITA Nationals/WCTs Rccione 04-13-11 (Splits: 59.43, 2:00.82 [1:01.40], 3:02.37 [1:02.55], 4:03.49 [1:01.12]) 4:03.50 Potec FRA Nationals/WCTs Montpellier 04-24-09 (Splits: 59.47, 2:01.37 [1:00.90], 3:02.46 [1:01.09], 4:03.50 [1:01.04]) 4:03.52 Jackson Olympics Beijing 08-11-08 (Splits: 59.58, 2:01.60 [1:02.02], 3:03.08 [1:01.48], 4:03.52 [1:00.44]) 4:03.52 Bronte Barratt, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Aelaide 04-26-13 (Splits: 58.94, 2:00.77 [1:01.83], 3:02.44 [1:01.67], 4:03.52 [1:01.08]) (Note: second performer-performance all-time Australia.) 4:03.56p Balmy Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 59.10, 2:00.70 [1:01.60], 3:02.32 [1:02.62], 4:03.56 [[1:01.24]) 4:03.60 Balmy Olympics Beijing 0-11-08 (Splits: 59.13, 2:01.24 [1:02.11], 3:02.82 [1:01.58], 4:03.60 [1:00.78]) 4:03.63p* Lauren Boyle, NZL/Cal Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 59.21, 2:01.01 [1:01.80], 3:02.67 [1:01.66], 4:03.63 [59.96]) 4:03.64 Muffat U.S. Nationals Atlanta 12-01-11 (Splits: 59.48, 2:01.51 [1:02.03], 3:03.30 [1:01.79], 4:03.64 [2:00.45\. (Note: U.S. Nationals record.) 4:03.71 Hoff Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 59.54, 2:01.89 [1:02.15], 3:03.23 [1:01.34], 4:03.71 [1:00.48]) Remaining Top 50 Performers 4:03.85 Janet Evans, USA/El Dorado HS Olympics Seoul 09-22-88

(Splits: 59.99, 2:02.14 [1:02.15], 3:03.40 [1:01.26], 4:03.85 [1:01.45]. (Note: gold-medalist.)


4:03.92 Kate Ziegler, USA U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-30-08 (Splits: 59.39, 2:01.39 [1:02.00], 3:03.67 [1:02.28], 4:03.92 [1:00.25]) 4:03.98* Lotte Friis, DEN Olympics London 07=29-12 (Splits: 58.80, 2:00.53 [1:01.73], 3:02.97 [1:02.44], 4:03.98 [1:01.01]) 4:04.12 Liu Jing, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-23-09 (Splits: 59.09, 2:00.77 [1:01.68], 3:03.38 [1:02.61], 4:04.12 [1:00.74]) 4:04.18 Chloe Sutton, USA U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-26-12 (Splits: 58.87, 2:00.53 [1:01.66], 3:02.53 [1:02.00], 4:04.18 [1:01.65]) 4:04.23* Otylia Jedrzejczak, POL World Championships Melbourne 03-25-07 (Splits: 59.55, 2:02.04 [1:02.49], 3:03.53 [1:01.49], 4:04.23 [1:00.70]) 4:04.34s Katie Ledecky, USA Olympics London 08-03-12 (Splits: 58.81, 1:59.95 [1:01.14], 3:02.10 [1:02.15], 4:04.34 [1:02.24]. (Note: 400 split en route to American-record 8:14.63 gold-medal winning 800 clocking, fastest such 400 all-time. (Note: 15-16 NAG record. Ledecky’s 400 clocking @ OlympicTrials [4:05.00] old record.) 4:04.54 Ophelie-Cyrielle Etienne, FRA World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 59.44, 2:00.94 [1:01.50], 3:02.97 [1:02.03], 4:04.54 [1:01.57]. (Note: seventh woman under 4:05.0 in same race. Unprecedented!) 4:04.59 Yiwen Shao, CHN CHN Nationals Rizhao 09-23-11 (Splits: 1:00.21, 2:02.11 [1:02.10], 3:03.64 [1:01.43], 4:04.59 [1:00.95]) 4:04.62 Xuanxu Lin, CHN CHN Nationals Rizhao 09-23-11 4:04.73 Linda MacKenzie, AUS AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-23-08 4:05.00 Yan Chen, CHN 8th National Games Shanghai 10-15-97 4:05.06p* Brittany MacLean, CAN Olympics London 07-29-12 4:05.09 Caroline Burckle, USA/Florida U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-30-08 (Note: American record-holder, 2008 NCAA Division 1 gold-medalist, 500 yard freestyle.) 4:05.19* Ai Shibata, JPN World Championships Melbourne 03-25-07 4:05.35* Mireia Belmonte Garcia, ESP XXXI European Championships Debrecen 05-27-12 4:05.51 Jazmin Carlin, GBR GBR Nationals/WCTs Manchester 03-05-11 4:05.55 Xue Li, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-23-09 4:05.75 Danlu Xu, CHN 9th Asian Championships Dubai 11-17-12 (Note: Championships/Middle Eastern Open-“All Comers” record. Thirteen years old!) 4:05.80 Brooke Bennett, USA Olympics Sydney 09-18-00 (Note: gold-medalist.) 4:05.81 Wenyan Song, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Wuhan 04-03-11` 4:05.84* Anke Mohring, GDR XIX European Championships Bonn 08-17-89 4:05.84 Katie Goldman, AUS Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-20-10 4:05.93 Xin Xin, CHN CHN Olympic Trials Shaoxiang 04-02-12 4:05.94 Heike Friedrich, GDR Olympics Seoul 09-22-88 4:06.02 Melanie Costa Schmid, ESP/Florida XIV Espana Absoluto Primavera Ponteverda 03-21-13 4:06.28 Tracey Wickham, AUS World Championships West Berlin 08-24-78 (Note: gold-medalist.) 4:06.30* Elena Sokolova, RUS 2nd FINA World Youth Championships Monterey 07-11-08 (Note: meet record.) 4:06.31 Hayley Peirsol, USA/Auburn U.S. Nationals, Pan-Pac, WCTs Irvine 08-01-06 (Note: third-place finish marks first [and only] time three women from same country under 4:07.0 in same race!) 4:06.36 Blair Evans, AUS Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-20-10 4:06.37* Sara Isakovic, SLO/Cal Slovenian Open/Olympic Trials Kanj 06-13-08 4:06.55* Hannah Stockbauer, GER GER Olympic Trials Berlin 06-16-00 4:06.56*” Claudia Poll, CRC Pan-Pac Championships Fukuoka 08-12-97 4:06.97 Liang Zhang, CHN 9th National Games Guangzhou 11-24-01 4:07.02 Caitlin McClatchey, GBR GBR World Championship Trialss Swansea 06-19-05 4:07.02 Savannah King, CAN CAN Olympic Trials Montreal 03-27-12 4:07.07 Diana Munz, USA Olympics Sydney 09-18-00


800 METER FREESTYLE Top 50 Performances 8:14.10** Rebecca Adlington, GBR Olympics Beijing 08-16-08 (Splits: 59.37, 2:01.32 [1:01.95], 3:03.58 [1:02.36], 4:05.72 [1:02.14], 5:07.62 [1:01.90], 6:10.30 [1:02.68], 7:13.34 [1:03.04], 8:14.10 [1:00.86]) (Note: 400 split [4:05.72] third-fastest all-time en route to 800. France’s Laure Manaudou’s 4:05.70 en route to winning 2006 European Championships 800 in Budapest with a then continental-standard 8:19.29. (Note: first British woman to win two golds at same Olympics and set a world-record in one of the races. Second British woman world record-setter @ an Olympics. Anita Lonsborough [200 breast, Rome, 1960] was first. Adlington only GBR woman freestyle gold-medalist/world record-setter. Fourth British wr-setter ever. Former University of Miami NCAA champ David Wilkie won 200 breast @ Montreal [1976] w/a then wr 2:15.36. At 1908 Olympics countryman Henry Taylor set wrs in 400-1500 frees. (Note: Adlington ranked fifth globally for 2007 with pr/NR 8:25.73 from British Championships.) 8:14.63*# Kathleen (Katie) Ledecky, USA Olympics London 08-03-12 (Splits: 58.81, 1:59.95 [1:01.14], 3:02.10 [1:02.15], 4:04.34 [1:02.24], 5:07.11 [1:02.77], 6:10.02 [1:02.91], 7:12.81 [1:02.79], 8:14.63 [1:01.82]. (Note: ahead of world-record pace @ 700 meters by .53 and still ahead after 750 but final 50 of 30.50 put paid to Ledecky’s hopes of breaking Adlington’s world/Olympic records. (Note: initial 400 [4:04.34] fastest all-time en route to 800 clocking and surpasses her old 400 pr of 4:05.00 from Olympic Trials. (Note: eighth American gold-medalist [sixth individual], most by any nation. First U.S. champ since Brooke Bennett went back-to-back @Atlanta [1996] and Sydney [Y2K]. (Note: youngest winner ever [15]. First international gold, first international team. Last year ranked 55th globally w/a then pr 8:36.05 from the U.S. Junior Nationals in Palo Alto that August. (Note: 15-16 NAG record/faster than Janet Evans’ 17-18 NAG record.

(Note: she intended to race Nathan Adrian home across the Atlantic “Freeway” in that new 600+hp Viper convertible U.S. Swimming awarded each London gold-medalist but – alas – she’still too young to drive!)

8:15.92*^ Lotte Friis, DEN World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Splits: 59.87, 2:02.19 [1:02.32], 3:04.83 [1:02.64], 4:07.51 [1:02.68], 5:09.90 [1:02.39], 6:12.51 [1:02.61], 7:15.30 [1:02.79], 8:15.92 [1:00.62]. (Note: 400 split [4:07.51] fastest-ever in World Championships history. (Note: first Danish gold-medalist, any event, either sex. Also Friis’ first major international victory.) 8:16.22 Janet Evans, USA/Stanford Pan-Pac Championships Tokyo 08-20-89

(Splits: 1:00.20, 2:02.53 [1:02.33], 3:05.12 [1:02].59], 4:07.92 [1:02.80], 5:10.27 [1:02.35], 6:12.82 [1:02.55], 7:15.44 [1:02.62], 8:16.22 [59.78]. By 400s: 4:07.92/4:08.30.)

(Note: Championships record/second performer-performance all-time USA/textile. (Note: third and final 800 free world-record. Standard lasted 18 years, 361 days as wr, 22 years, 11 months, 348 days as AR. (Note: 17-18 NAG record. (Note: tried coming back as a “40 something” in 2K11-12 but failed to qualify for London.)

8:16.66 Joanne Jackson, GBR World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Splits: 59.75, 2:02.23 [1:02.48], 3:04.85 [1:02.62], 4:07.75 [1:02.90], 5:10.68 [1:02.93], 6:13.69 [1:03.01], 7:16.55 [1:02.86], 8:16.66 [1:00.11]. (Note: first British medalist since countrywoman Rebecca Cooke won bronze @ Barcelona [1982, 8:28.45]) 8:16.70* Camelia Potec, ROU FRA Nationals/WCTs Montpellier 04-22-09 (Splits: 59.74, 2:01.73 [1:01.99], 3:03.80 [1:02.07], 4:06.15 [1:02.35], 5:09.43 [1:02.28], 6:11.27 [1:02.84], 7:14.46 [1:03.19], 8:16.70 [1:02.24]. (Note: French Open/”All Comers” records.) 8:16.81 Adlington SCO Nationals/WCTs Glasgow 06-26-09 (Splits: 1:00.48, 2:02.89 [1:02.41], 3:05.85 [1:02.96], 4:08.95 [1:03.10], 5:11.95 [1:03.00], 6:14.71 [1:02.76], 7:17.26 [1:02.55], 8:16.81 [59.55]. (Note: fastest-ever in a British pool by a British swimmer.) 8:17.12 Evans U.S. Nationals Orlando 03-22-88

(Splits: 1:00.01, 2:02.35 [1:02.34], 3:04.86 [1:02.51], 4:07.56 [1:02.70], 5:10.17 [1:02.61], 6:12.97 [1:02.80], 7:15.83 [1:02.85], 8:17.12 [1:02.29]

(Note: U.S. Nationals record. Second performer-performance all-time 15-16 girls.)


8:17.21* Alessia Filippi, ITA World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Splits: 1:00.50, 2:03.05 [1:02.55], 3:05.74 [1:02.69], 4:08.70 [1:02.96], 5:11.38 [1:02.68], 6:13.74 [1:02.36], 7:15.84 [1:02.10], 8:17.21 [1:01.37]. (Note: first Italian medalist [bronze] since countrywoman Novella Calligaris won inaugural World Championships @ 1973 competition in Belgrade [world-record 8:52.97]. Time eclipsed America’s Keena Rothammer’s 8:53.68 gold-medal winning standard from Munich Olympics a year and six days earlier [09-03-72]) 8:17.51 Adlington World Championships Shanghai 07-30-11 (Splits: 59.69, 2:02.61 [ 1:02.91], 3:06.01 [1:03.50], 4:09.32 [1:03.31], 5:12.59 [1:03.27], 6:15.23 [1:02.64], 7:18.04 [ 1:01.81], 8:17.51 [59.47]. (Note: first World Championships gold, first British winner.) 8:17.81 Jackson SCO Nationals/WCTs Glalsgow 06-26-09 (Splits: 1:00.45, 2:03.23 [1:02.78], 3:05.97 [1:02.74], 4:08.96 [1:02.99], 5:11.71 [1:02.15], 6:14.66 [1:02.95], 7:17.36 [1:02.70], 8:17.81 [1:00.38]. (Note: first time two women from same nation under 8:20.0 in same race.) 8:17.90 Adlington World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Splits: 59.77, 2:02.15 [1:02.38], 3:04.86 [1:02.71], 4:07.85 [1:02.99], 5:10.62 [1:02.77], 6:13.78 [1:03.16], 7:16.89 [12:03.11], 8:17.90 [1:01.01]. (Note: fourth woman sub 8:18.0 in same race. Only time ever!) 8:18.06p Adlington Olympics Beijing 08-14-08 (Splits: 1:00.08, 2:02.37 [1:02.29], 3:04.84 [1:02.47], 4:07.64 [1:02.80], 5:10.14 [1:02.50], 6:12.96 [1:02.82], 7:16.01 [1:03.04], 8:18.06 [1:02.59]. (Note: fastest-ever qualifying time.) 8:18.20 Friis World Championships Shanghai 07-30-11 (Splits: 59.49, 2:02.50 [1:02.91], 3:05.99 [1:03.49], 4:09.38 [1:03.39], 5:12.30 [1:02.92], 6:14.94 [1:02.64], 7:17.39 [1:02.45], 8:18.20 [69.82]. (Note: second-consecutive gold-medal. Won @ Rome two years earlier.) 8:18.52 Kate Ziegler, USA World Championships Melbourne 03-31-07 (Splits: 59.61, 2:01.90 [1:02.29], 3:04.81 [1:02.91], 4:08.04 [1:03.23], 5:11.22 [1:03.18], 6:14.94 [1:03.72], 7:18.49 [1:02.55], 8:18.52 [1:00.03]. By 400s: 4:08.04/4:10.48.) 8:18.54 Adlington GBR Olympic Trials London 03-09-12 (Splits: 59.18, 2:01.51 [1:02.33], 3:04.24 [1:02.73], 4:07.12 [1:02:83], 5:09.82 [1:02.70], 6:13.24 [1:03.40], 7:16.50 [1:03.26], 8:18.54 [1:02.04]. By 400s: 4:07.12/4:11.36.) 8:18.76* Mireia Belmonte Garcia, ESP Olympics London 08-03-12 (Splits: 59.95, 2:02.42 [1:02.47], 3:05.30 [1:02.88], 4:08.51 [1:03.21], 5:11.00 [1:02.49], 6:13.43 [1:02.43], 7:15.73 [1:02.30], 8:18.76 [1:03.03]. (Note: first Spanish medalist [silver], Belmonte Garcia’s second Olympic medal. Won bronze in 200 fly.) 8:18.80* Laure Manaudou, FRA World Championships Melbourne 03-31-07 (Splits: 58.91, 2:01.24 [1:02.33], 3:04.31 [1:03.07], 4:07.90 [1:04.59], 5:11.26 [1:03.36], 6:14.98 [1:03.72], 7:18.41 [1:03.43], 8:18.80 [1:00.39]) 8:18.86 Adlington GBR Nationals/WCTs Sheffield 03-19-09 (Splits: 59.38, 2:02.19 [1:01.81], 3:05.12 [1:02.93], 4:08.38/4:10.48]) 8:19.03 Adlington ASA Nationals/Final Olympic Trials Sheffield 06-22-12 (Splits: 59.72, 2:02.60 [1:02.88], 3:05.91 [1:03.31], 4:09.44/4:09.59]) 8:19.22p Adlington GBR Olympic Trials Sheffield 04-03-08 (Splits 1:00.31, 2:03.23 [1:02.92], 3:05.90 [1:02.67], 4:08.92 [1:03.02], 5:11.65 [1:02.73], 6:14.93 [1:03.28], 7:17.79 [2:02.86], 8:19.22 [1:01.43]) 8:19.29 Manaudou XXVIII European Champiuonships Budapest 08-02-06

(Splits: 58.30, 2:00.06 [1:01.36], 3:02.61 [1:02.55], 4:05.70 [1:03.09], 5:09.26 [1:03.56], 5:13.03 [1:03.77], 7:17.10 [1:04.07], 8:19.29 [1:02.19].

(Note: opening 400 split [4:05.70] second-fastest all-time en route to 800 clocking Championships record) 8:19.53* Anke Mohring, GDR XVIII European Championships Strasbourg 08-22-87 (Splits: 1:01.41, 2:04.60, 3:07.46, 4:09.89, 5:12.28, 6:15.31, 7:18.25, 8:19.53) 8:19.67 Brooke Bennett, USA Olympics Sydney 09-22-00 (Splits: 1:00.50, 12:02.87 [1:02.37], 3:05.37 [1:02.50], 4:07.83 [1:02.46], 5:10.54 [1:02.71], 6:13.32 [1:02.78], 7:16.84 [1:03.52], 8:19.67 [1:02.83]. (Note: second-consecutive gold.) 8:19.70 Katie Hoff, USA Toyota/Buckeye Grand Prix Columbus 04-04-08


8:19.70p Potec Olympics Beijing 08-14-08 8:19.78 Ledecky U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-01-12 (Note: Trials record, first Olympic berth, second-performer/performance all-time 15-16 girls, fastest by an American in four-plus years AND fifth-performer/sixth-performance all-time USA.) 8:19.86 Adlington XXXIII Ciutat de Bar,.Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-02-12 8:20.20 Evans Olympics Seoul 09-24-88 8:20.23 Filippi Olympics Beijing 08-14-08 8:20.23 Adlington GBR Nationals/WCTs Manchester 03-11-11 8:20.29 Adlington GBR Olympic Trials Sheffield 04-05-08 8:20.32 Adlington Olympics London 08-03-12 (Note: defending champion/world record-holder wins bronze.) 8:20.36a Qian Chen, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-26-09 8:20.44 Potec World Championships Rome 08-01-09 8:20.53p Adlington World Championships Rome 07-31-09 8:20.64 Ledecky Arena Grand Prix Mesa 04-13-13 8:20.70 Filippi XLVI RomAquatca/SetteColliInvitational Rome 06-07-08 (Note: meet-record.) 8:20.78 Filippi XVI Mediterranean Games Pescara 06-30-09 (Note: Games record.) 8:20.80p Jackson World Championships Rome 07-31-09 8:20.81 Hoff U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-05-06 (Note: Trials record.

(Note: record fifth Trials title. Ties her w/Shirley Babashoff [1976] and Michael Phelps [2008] for most-ever. (Hoff won both IMs + 200, 400, 800 freestyles here, only swimmer [m/f] of either sex to win these events @ same meet!) 8:21.25 Adlington XXXI Ciutat de Barcelona/Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-09-10 (Note: meet/Mare Nostrum Series/Spanish Open/”All Comers” records.) 8:21.59 Ziegler Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-18-10 8:21.74p Friis Olympics Beijing 08-13-09 8:21.78p Adlington Olympics London 08-02-12 8:21.87 Ziegler U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-01-12 (Note: second-consecutive Olympic berth.) 8:21.89p Friis Olympics London 08-02-12 8:21.94 Ziegler Potomac Valley Senior Championships College Park 07-13-07 8:21.95p Filippi Olympics Beijing 08-14-08 8:21.95 Adlington GBR Nats./European Chmps../CG Trials Sheffield 04-01-10 Remaining Top 50 Performers 8:22.09 Astrid Strauss, GDR Olympics Seoul 09-24-88 8:22.24 Danlu Xu, CHN 9th Asian Championships Dubai 11-18-12 (Note: Championships/Middle Eastern Open-“All Comers” record. Thirteen years old!) 8:22.66* Yana Klochkova, UKR Olypics Sydney 09-22-00 8:22.76 Xin Xin, CHN CHN Olympic Trials Shaoxing 04-05-12 8:22.81p* Kylie Palmer, AUS Olympics Beijing 08-14-08 8:22.83 Katie Goldman, AUS AUS Nats./Commonwealth Games Trials Sydney 03-19-10 8:22.93 Julie McDonald, AUS Olympics Seoul 09-24-88 8:23.07p* Elena Sokolova, RUS Olympics Beijing 08-14-08 8:23.11* Lauren Boyle, NZL/Cal NZL Nationals/WCTs Auckland 03-21-13 8:23.55 Xuanxu Li, CHN 16th Asian Games Guangzhouy 11-18-10 (Note: Games record.) 8:23.60 Camille Muffat, FRA 6th Sport EDF Paris Open Paris 07-06-12 (Note: world record-holder, 800 meter freestyle, scm [8:01.06, FRA Nationals, Angers, 11-15-12) 8:23.66* Hannah Stockbauer, GER World Championships Barcelona 07-26-03 8:23.68* Sachiko Yanada, JPN JPN Olympic Trials Tokyo 04-23-04 8:23.76 Ai Shibata, JPN Japan 2007 International Invitational Chiba 08-24-07 8:23.83 Jana Henke, GER XXVI European Championships Berlin 08-01-02 8:23.89* Boglarka Kapas, HUN Olympics London 08-03-12 8:24.00 Ophelle-Cyrielle Etienne, FRA XXX European Championships Budapest 08-13-10 8:24.05 Chloe Sutton, USA World Championships Shanghai 07-30-11


8:24.08 Erika Villaecija, ESP XXIX European Championships Eindhoven 03-21-08 8:24.10 Li Li, CHN CHN Nats./Pan-Pac, Asian Games Trials Shaoxing 04-23-10 8:24.14 Yiwen Shao, CHN 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 11-18-10 8:24.15 Janelle Elford, AUS Sundowner Invitational Mission Bay 05-30-88 8:24.19 Diana Munz, USA World Championships Barcelona 07-26-03 8:24.29 Kaitlin Sandeno, USA/El Toro High Olympics Sydney 09-22-00 8:24.36 Stephanie Peacock, USA/North Carolina U.S. Open Indianapolis 08-07-12 (Note: U.S.Open record. Old record: 8:24.71, Janet Evans, USA, 12/87. (Note: NCAA Division 1 record-setter/gold-medalist, 1650 yard freestyle [2K12]. (Note: Peacock’s first U.S. Open record. Her sister Aubrey is a backstroker @ University of Arizona.) 8:24.42 Jazmin Carlin, GBR British Gas International Leeds 03-07-13 8:24.62 Tracey Wickham, AUS Commonwealth Games Edmonton 08-05-78 (Note: Games record and @ that time world-record too.) 8:24.63 Jessica Ashwood, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 05-02-13 8:24.70 Kim Linehan, USA/Texas AAU Nationals Fort Lauderdale 08-16-79 8:24.77 Sarah Hardcastle, GBR Commonwealth Games Edinburgh 07-29-86 8:24.95 Tiffany Cohen, USA/Texas Olympics Los Angeles 08-03-84 (Note: gold-medalist.) 8:24.99 Federica Pellegrini, ITA XXX European Championships Budapest 08-13-10 (Note: bronze-medalist; first time 200-400 free world record-holder has swum 800 free in a major international competition and swim was done less than a half-hour after she had set a Championships record in the 200 free [1:56.53]) 8:25.04* Grainne Murphy, IRL XXX European Championships Budapest 08-13-10 8:25.32 Coralie Balmy, FRA FRA Nationals/WCTs Montpellier 04-22-09 8:25.36 Hua Chen, CHN 14th Asian Games Busan 10-05-02 1500 METER FREESTYLE Top 50 Performances 15:42.54** Kate Ziegler, USA TYR Meet of Champions Mission Viejo 06-17-07 Splits: 2:03.46, 4:09.87 [2:06.41], 8:22.57 [4{12.70]. Fastest initial 800 all-time en route to1500 free swim. (Note: time would have won every men’s Olympics 1500 through Munich [1972] and is only five seconds off Australia’s Steve Holland’s then world-record of 15:37.80 from World Championship Trials @ Brisbane, 08/05/73. (Note: 17-18 NAG record.) 15:44.93*+# Alessia Filippi, ITA World Champiomships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 4:12.30 [400], 8:23.80 [800]. (Note: Italy’s first gold. Germany, United States, Denmark other nations that have won race.) 15:46.30* Lotte Friis, DEN World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 4:09.29 [400], 8:23.12 [800].

(Note: Denmark’s fourth overall woman’s medal, Friis’s second. Breaststroker Susanne Nielsson won a bronze in the 200 in 1978 and freestyler Mette Jacobsen won a bronze in the 200 free @ Perth [1991].

(Note: first time two women under 15:50.0 in same race. (Note: 800 split second-fastest all-time en route to 1500. (Note: from high above that great 50 meter pool in the sky, Hans Christen Andersen AND The Little Mermaid are smiling.) 15:49.59 Friis World Championships Shanghai 07-26-11 (Splits: 2:01.83 [200], 4:08.49 [1:02.77 – fastest initial 400 all-time!], 8:23.94 [4:15.45]. (Note: first Danish winner, Friis’ second gold. Won 800 free @ Rome in 2K9. (Note: fastest all-time textile.) 15:52.10 Janet Evans, USA/El Dorado HS U.S. Nationals Orlando 03-26-88

(Splits: 1:01.17, 2:04.46, 4:11.70, 8:26.52. (Note: 15-16 NAG record. (Note: world-record lasted 19 years, 15 days!)

15:52.37* Camille Potec, ROU FRA Nationals/WCTs Montpellier 0426-09 15:52.84 Filippi ITA Nationals Treviso 07-16-08 (Splits: 4:16.98 [400], 8:32.91 [800]) 15:53.05 Ziegler World Championships Melbourne 03-27-07 (Splits: 2:03.20 [200], 4:10.03 [400], 8:25.56 [800]) (Note: first and only American gold-medalist and first repeat U.S. champion. 15:54.23 Evans/Stanford 2nd Goodwill Games Federal Way 07-23-90


15:55.01 Ziegler Pan-Pac Championships Victoria 08-17-06 (Splits: 2:03.35 [200], 4:11.01 [400], 8:27.34 [800]) (Note: meet-record.) 15:55.38* Flavia Rigamonti, SUI/SMU World Championships Melbourne 03-27-07 (Note: second Swiss female medalist [silver] in any event ever. Also won 1500 silvers in 2001, ’05) 15:55.60 Ziegler World Championships Shanghai 07-26-11 (Splits: 2:04.58 [200], 4:12.80 [2:08.22], 8:29.02 [4:16.22]) 15:55.63 Potec World Championshhips Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 4:`10.44 [400], 8:26.60 [800]). 15:57.36 Hayley Peirsol, USA/Auburn Pan-Pac Championships Victoria 08-17-06 (Splits: 2:04.38 [200], 4:12.02 [400], 8:28.09 [800])

(Note: 2006, ‘07 NCAA D1 1650 yard freestyle champ for NCAA team champ Auburn. Sister of Aaron, wr-holder, 100-200 meter backstrokes and former NCAA 200 back gold-medalist for Texas..

(Note: first time two women from same country under 16:00.0 in same race) 15:57.57* Kristel Kobrich, CHI World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 4:13.01 [400], 8:29.54 [900]. (Note: first Chilean finalist, either sex, any event. Fourth. South American record. (Note: first time four women under 16:00.0 in same race.) 15:57.89 Potec Grand Prix du France Bordeaux 02-07-09 15:58.02* Xuanxu Li, CHN World Championships Shanghai 07-25-11 (Note: first Chnese woman sub-16:00.0, secondAsian. Frst Chinese medalist [bronze]) 15:58.23p Frist World Championships Rome 07-27-09 15:58.44 Friis DEN Nationals/WCTs Edjsberg 04-12-09 (Note: first – and ONLY – Nordic woman under 16:00.0. Seventh overall, fourth European) 15:58.54 Rigamonti XXIX European Championships Eindhoven 03-23-08 (Note: first Swiss female gold-medalist.) 15:58.55* Ai Shibata, JPN World Championships Melbourne 03-27-07 (Note: third woman under 16:00.0 in same race. First-time ever) 15:58.75p Kobrich World Championships Rome 07-27-09 15:59.13 Friis XXX European Championships Budapest 08-13-10 (Note: first European Championships title, first major international gold.) 15:59.44 Evans U.S. Nationals Austin 07-30-93 16:00.18* Hannah Stockbauer, GER World Championships Barcelona 07-22-03 (Note: second-consecutive title.) 16:00.25* Erika Villaecija, ESP World Championships Rome 07-28-09 16:00.41 Ziegler World Chamnpionship Montreal 07-26-05 (Note: first U.S. gold-medalist.) 16:00.47p Friis World Championships Shanghai 07-25-11 16:00.60 Filippi ITA Winter Nationals Riccione 03-04-09 16:00.73 Evans U.S. Nationals Clovis 07-31-87 16:01.02 Stockbauer World Championships Fukuoka 07-28-01 16:01.41 Friis Intl. Meeting. d’Amiens/Gooden Lane Amiens 03-16-13 16:01.53*+ Melissa Gorman, AUS Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-21-10 16:01.72p Yiwen Shao, CHN World Championships Shanghai 07-25-11 16:02.01 Kolbrich ESP Nationals/WCTs Madrid 04-02-11 16:02.08 Vallaecija XXIX European Championships Eindhoven 03-23-08 (Note: Spain’s first distance-freestyle medalist [silver]) 16:02.21p Potec World Championships Rome 07-27-09 16:02.29* Grainne Murphy, IRL XXX European Championships Budapest 08-13-10 16:02.53p Ziegler World Championships Shanghai 07-25-11 16:02.82p Peirsol World Championships Melbourne 03-26-07 16:02.98 Villaceija ESP Nationals/WCTs Malaga 04-04-09 16:03.01* Laure Manaudou, FRA FRA Nats./European Championship Trials Tours 05-14-06 16:03.24 Gorman AUS Nats./Commonwealth Games Trials Sydney 03-21-10 16:03.26 Ziegler Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-21-10 16:03.30 Diana Munz, USA U.S. Nationals Federal Way 04-01-00 16:03.50p Kobrich World Championships Shanghai 07-25-11


16:04.34 Rigamonti World Championships Montreal 07-26-05 16:04.34p Filippi World Championships Rome 07-27-09 16:04.49 Kim Linehan, USA/Texas AAU Nationals Fort Lauderdale 08-19-79 16:04.72 Fruus FRA Nationals/CTs Rennes 04-14-13 Remaining Top 50 Performers 16:04.84 Hayley Lewis, AUS Pan-Pac Championships Kobe 08-12-93 16:05.34 Mireia Belmonte Garcia, ESP XXXI European Championships Debrecen 05-26-12 16:05.63p* Wendy Trott, RSA/Georgia World Championships Shanghai 07-25-11 (Note: 2K9-’11 NCAA Division 1 1650 yard freestyle gold-medalist/Southeastern Conference record-holder.) 16:06.10 Pang Wenxian, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Zhengzhou 04-03-13 16:06.13 Sachiko Yanada, JPN U.S. Nationals Orlando 02-14-04 16:06.63 Tracey Wickham, AUS AUS Nationals/FINA Cup Trials Perth 02-25-79 16:06.67* Keri-Anne Payne, GBR GBR Nationals/WCTs Manchester 03-07-11 (Note: first national-record of career.) 16:07.02 Xu Danlu, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Zhengzhou 04-03-13 16:07.73* Brittany Reimer, CAN World Championships Montgreasl 07-26-05 16:07.94* Anastasia Ivanenko, RUS RUS Winter Nationals Moscow 02-04-07 16:08.02 Marybeth Linzmeier, USA/Stanford AAU Nationals Fort Lauderdale 08-19-79 16:08.64 Kalyn Keller, USA/USC U.S. Nationals College Park 08-09-03 16:08.80 Brooke Bennett, USA U.S. Nationals Federal Way 04-01-00 16:10.04* Eva Risztov, HUN XXXI European Championships Debrecen 05-26-12 16:10.11 Janelle Elford, AUS AUS Nationals Perth 02-28-87 16:10.13 Jana Henke, GER World Championships Barcelona 07-22-03 16:10.42 Stacey Gartrell, AUS Pan-Pac Championships Kobe 08-12-93 16:11.15 Michelle Ford, AUS/USC New South Wales Invitational Sydney 12-19-80 16:11.88 Leonie Antonia Beck, GER GER Nationals/WCTs Berlin 04-25-13 16:11.97 Tiffany Cohen, USA/Texas U.S. Nationals Clovis 08-06-83 16:11.98 Becca Mann, USA Junior Pan-Pac Championships Honolulu 08-26-12 (Note: Championships/13-14 NAG records.) 16:12.00 Eider Santamaria, ESP ESP Nationals/WCTs Malaga 04-04-09 16:12.15 Lili Zhou, CHN CHN Olympic Trials Shaoxing 04-07-12 16:12.56p Chloe Sutton, USA World Championships Rome 07-27-09 16:12.57 Michelle Richardson, USA/Miami U.S. Winter Nationals Indianapolis 03-31-84 16:13.01 Hua Chen, CHN CHN Nationals/Pan-Pac Trials Chengdu 04-26-02 16:13.13* Regina Sytch, RUS World Championships Barcelona 07-22-03 16:13.55*' Astrid Strauss, GDR USS International Austin 01-05-84 16:13.57 Xin Xin, CHN CHN Olympic Trials Shaoxing 04-07-12 16:14.12 Julie Kole, USA/Stanford U.S. Nationals Los Angeles 07-31-89 16:14.47 Jessica Ashwood, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 04-03-11 16:14.67 Gillian Ryan, USA U.S. Junior Nationals Indianapolis 08-17-12 (Note: meet/Junior Nationals record. Also set same marks in 400-800 frees.) 50 METER BACKSTROKE Top 54 Performances 27.06** Jing Zhao, CHN World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Reaction Time: +0.51. (Note: first Asian gold medalist, second world record-setter. Teammate Yang Li went 28.09 @ World Military Championships two years ago.) 27.22# Fu Yuanhui, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Zhengzhou 04-05-13 (Note: all-time fastest textile.) 27.23+* Daniela Samulski, GER World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Reaction Time: +0.60.) 27.28 Chang Gao, CHN World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Reaction Time: +0.63.)


27.31* Anastasia Zueva, RUS World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Note: fastest non-medalist all-time [fourth].

(Note: first time four women under old wr in same race, second time in history. At 1968 U.S. OlympicTrials in Long Beach’s then brand-new Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool [still in use today and often site of women’s/men’s Pac-12 Championships] former Indiana U. All-America Charlie Hickox broke Hoosier teammate Gary Hall’s 400 IM world-record [4:43.4] w/a 4:43.3 in prelims That evening Hickcox “dooed” it again, winning in a wr 4:39.0 with Hall, Greg Buckingham and Peter Williams also all under the old global standard of 4:43.3.)

27.38sf2 Zueva World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Reaction Time: +0.80.) 27.38 Chang 8th Asian Swimming Championships Foshan 11-26-09 (Note: fastest-ever in an Asian pool Chinese Open/All Comers” record.). 27.39sf1 Samulski World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Reaction Time: +0.62.) 27.43 Gao 5th East Asian Games Hong Kong 12-07-09 (Note: Games record.) 27.45 Zhao 5th East Asian Games Hong Kong 12-07-09 27.46 Gao 16th Asian Games Guangzhao 11-16-10 (Note: Games record.) 27.47 Zueva RUS Nationals/WCTs Moscow 04-29-09 27.48p Zueva RUS Nationals/WCTs Moscow 04-28-09 27.51sf1 Sophie Edington, AUS World Championships Rome 07-29-09 27.51* Aya Terakawa, JPN JPN Nationals/WCTs Nigata 05-13-13 (Note: 29 years old. Born: 1984.) 27.54 Gao CHN Nationals/Asian Games Trials Ruzhao 08-31-10 27.56 Zueva XXVII Mtng. de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-14-09 (Note: meet/Mare Nostrum series records.) 27.57sf2* Aliaksandra Herasimenia, BLR World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Note co-World Champion, 100 meter freestyle [Shanghai, 2011]) 27.59sf2 Zhao World Championships Rome 07-29-09 27.61 Samulski GER Nationals/WCTs Berlin 06-26-09 27.62 Herasimenia World Championships Rome 07-30-09 27.64 Herasimenia XXX European Championships Budapest 08-14-10 (Note: Championships record, first major international gold.) 27.65p Herasimenia World Championships Rome 07-29-09 27.66sf2 Gao World Championships Rome 07-29-09 27.67 Edington AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-23-08 27.67 Zhao CHN Nationals/WCTs Shaoxing 04-09-09 27.70p Zueva World Championships Rome 07-29-09 27.70p Samulski World Championships Rome 07-29-09 27.70sf1 Emily Seebohm, AUS World Championships Rome 07-29-09 27.70sf2*’ Fabiola Molina, BRA/Tennessee World Championships Rome 07-29-09

(Note: South American record. ONLY South American woman ever under 28.0. Fastest all-time by a woman 30+. Born: 05/11//75!

(Note: Molina, Australia’s Emily Seebohm tied for eighth in qualifying. Not only fastest-ever Top 8 in history but first [and ONLY] time eight women have gone 27.70 or faster, albeit in two different heats.) 27.71 Terakawa 6th Japan Open Tokyo 05-27-12 27.72 Zhao CHN Nats./Pan-Pac, Asian Games Trials Xiaoxing 04-25-10 27.72 Gao CHN Nats./Pan-Pac, Asian Games Trials Xiaoxing 04-25-10 27.73sf1 Terakawa World Championships Rome 07-29-09 27.73 Edington World Championships Rome 07-30-09 27.74 Zhao CHN Nationals/Asian Games Trials Ruzhao 08-31-10 27.76 Gao CHN Nationals/WCTs Shaoxing 04-09-09 27.76 Liu Xiang, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Zhengzhou 04-05-13 27.77sf2* Hinkelien Schreuder, NED World Championships Rome 07-29-09 27.77 Zhao 8th Asian Swimming Championships Foshan 11-26-09 27.78 Zueva XXIX EME Mtng. de Monaco/Mare Nost. Monte Carlo 06-12-11 27.78 Etienne Medeiras, BRA Trofeo Maria Lenk/BRA WCTs Rio de Janeiro 04-25-13


27.79 Terakawa JPN World Championship Trials Hamamatsu 04-11-11 27.79 Zueva World Championships Shanghai 07-28-11 (Note: Zueva’s first major international gold, first Russian winner-medalist, fastest all-time textile.) 27.80* Hayley McGregory, USA/Texas-USC Texas Sr. Circuit Championships No. 4 Austin 06-07-08 27.80 Zueva Arena Meeting de Canet/Mare Nostrum Canet 06-09-09 (Note: French Open/”All Comers”/meeting record.) 27.82 Zueva XXX Ciutat de Bacelona/Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-07-09 (Note: Spanish Open/“All Comers” record.) 27.82p Edington World Championships Rome 07-29-09 27.83 Edington XXIX Ciutat de Barcelona/Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-11-08 27.83 Samulski XXVII Mtng. de Monaco/Mare Nosrum Monte Carlo 06-14-09 27.83sf1 McGregory World Championships Rome 07-29-09 27.83 Seebohm World Championships Rome 07-29-09 27.83 Edington Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-19-10 (Note: Championships record.) 27.83 Zhao 9th Asian Swimming Championships Dubai 11-18-12 Remaining Top 50 Performers 27.84 Rachel Bootsma, USA NCSA Championships Orlando 03-24-12 27.88sf2 Shiho Sakai, JPN World Championships Rome 07-29-09 27.90 Li Yang, CHN CHN Nationals Beijing 08-31-09 27.92sf1* Gemma Spofforth, GBR/Florida World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Note: World Championships gold-medalist/world record-setter, 100 meter backstroke. (Note: NCAA Division 1 record-holder/2008-‘10 gold-medalist, 100 yard backstroes, ’08-’09 champ, 200 back. Southeastern Conference [SEC] and Gator record-holder in same events.) 27.92 Jen Connolly, USA/Tennessee World University Games Shenzhen 08-18-11 (Note: Games record. Broke own record of 28.13 from prelims. First major international gold) 27.93sf1* Mercedes Peris, ESP World Championships Shanghai 07-27-11 27.96 Georgina Davies, GBR ASA/GBR Summer Championships Sheffield 06-15-11 28.01sf1 Missy (The Missile) Franklin, USA World Championships Shanghai 07-28-11 (Note: world record-holder/Olympic gold-medalist, 200 meter backstroke [London, 2012]) 28.05* Sanja Jovanovic, CRO 23rd Golden Bear Invittional Zagreb 06-21-08 (Note: world record-holder [scm], 25.70, European Championships, Istanbul, 12-13-09) 28.09 Yang Li, CHN 4th World Military Championships Hyderabad 10-19-07 28.09* Julia Wilkinson, CAN/Texas A&M World Championships Shanghai 07-28-11 28.11 Nina Zhivanevskaya, ESP XXIX European Championships Eindhoven 03-23-08 28.12sf Alicia Coutts, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 04-29-13 28.13 Tianlongxi Xu, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Shaoxing 04-09-09 28.13* Laure Manaudou, FRA FRA Olympic Trials Dunkirk 03-21-12

(Note: 2007 World Champion, 200-400 meter freestyles; silver-medalist, 100 meter backstroke.) 28.15 Grace Loh, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 04-05-11 28.15 Lauren Quigley, GBR ASA Nationals/Final Olympic Trials Sheffied 06-21-12 28.16sf1 Lila Varziri, USA/Indiana World Championships Melbourne 03-28-07

(Note: first Indiana female world-record setter. First Hoosier since Jim Montgomery [100 meter freesyle, Montreal Olympics, 1976] to set a world-record. Also first Big Ten woman gold-medalist.)

28.19* Janine Pietsch, GER GER Nationals/WCTs Berlin 05-26-05 28.24 Tayliah Zimmer, AUS AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-23-08 28.24p Yanxin Zhou, CHN World Championships Shanghai 07-27-11 28.25p Sandra Volker, GER GER Olympic Trials Berlin 06-17-00 28.25 Reiko Nakamura, JPN Japan Open Tokyo 06-08-08 28.25sf2* Theodora Drakou, GRE World Championships Shanghai 07-27-11 28.26 Myuki Takemura, JPN Japan Open Tokyo 06-07-09 28.26 Femke Heemskerk, NED FRA Nationals/WCTs Strasbourg 03-27-11 28.27p* Elena Gemo, ITA World Championships Rome 07-29-09 28.27 Sinead Russell, CAN/Florida CAN Nationals.WCTs Vancouver 04-04-13 28.30s Natalie Coughlin, USA/Cal World Championships Melbourne 03-27-07 (Note: 50 split off world record-setting 59.44 100 meter backstroke clocking. (Note: Olympic gold-medalist, 100 meter backstroke [Athens, 2004; Beijing, 2008]; World Champion, 2001, ’07].)


28.30 Belinda Hocking, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-21-09 28.30sf1 Ariana Barbieri, ITA XXXI European Championships Debrecen 05-27-12 28.31 Jenny Mensing, GER ` 5th Open EDF de Natation Paris 06-25-11 28.33 Haihua Cheng, CHN CHN Nationals Rizhao 09-24-11 28.34 Yanyan Chen, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Shaoxing 04-08-09 100 METER BACKSTROKE Top 51 Performances 58.12** Gemma Spofforth, GBR/Florida World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 28.71, 58.12 [29.41].

(Note: first world-record/World Championship of career, Second British gold-medalist [Katie Sexton’s 200 back gold @ Barcelona [2003] was first. Spofforth second Florida female gold-medalist [any event] and first Gator woman to break a world-record. Former Gators Nicole Sinanislett, 1992 Olympic 200 free gold-medalist, won 100 free @ Melboune during the 1991 World Championships. Gators Martin Zubero/Ryan Lochte have won also wonWorld Championship golds/set wrs in 200 meter backstroke + won Olympic golds. Zubero won @ Melbourne [’91] and @ his hometown of Barcelona a year later swimming for his native Spain. Lochte struck gold @ Beijing and then a year later in Rome. (Note: first British woman to break 100 back world-record since Margaret Edwards went 1:12.4 @ Cardiff on April 19, 1958. Her record was short-lived, however, as it was broken by a Dutch swimmer three months later [1:12.3]. (Note: first time world-record broken in same meet on consecutive days since East Germany’s Rica Reinisch swam 1:01.50 in the prelims of the Olympics @ Moscow on July 22, 1980, then became first under 1:01.0 with her 1:00.86 to win the gold-medal the following day. No word as to her ”dietary practices.”

(Note: 2008-’10 NCAA Division 1 champion, 100 yard backstroke, NCAA/Southeastern Conference record-holder. (Note: Tracy Caulkins, who won three golds and set and/or equaled three world records @ the 1978 World Championships in West Berlin [200 fly, both IMs], became a multi-NCAA champ for Florida but not until several years following her Berlin effort. Caulkins swam for the Gators in the early ’80s, climaxing her career with a treble gold-medal winning performance @ the Los Angeles Olympics [1984]) (Note: retired mid-September 2012.) 58.18+*# Anastasia Zueva, RUS World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Splits: 28.13, 58.18 [30.06]. (Note: fastest-ever 50 split en route to 100 back clocking. (Note: first time two different woman from two different countries have broken world-record in same race and first time one has broken the other’s global-standard from earlier in meet.) 58.23p+* Emily Seebohm, AUS Olympics London 08-03-12 (28.57, 58.23 [29.66]. (Note: fastest all-time textile.) 58.33* Missy (The Missile) Franklin, USA Olympics London 07-30-12 (28.82, 58.33 [29.51]. (Note: first individual Olympic gold, ninth overall U.S. winner [including last three], 17-18 NAG record.) 58.39sf2 Seebohm Olympics London 07-29-12 (29.09, 59.37 [30.28]) 58.48sf1 Zueva World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 28.43, 58.48 [30.05]. (Note: 50 split fastest all-time en route to world record. USA’s Natalie Coughlin’s 28.39 fastest 50 split all-time but hers was not done in a world-record swim. (Note: first Russian woman to set a 100 back world-record. No swimmer from former Soviet Union ever did it either.) 58.50r Franklin Olympics London 08-04-12 (28.81, 58.50 [29.69]. (Note: leadoff leg on world record-setting 400 meter medley relay, Franklin’s first relay wr [set global-standard in 200 back a day earlier]. (Note: world-record @ Olympics was U.S.’ first since breaking it @Y2K Games [Sydney] with its 3:58.30. America has now broken 400 mr global-standard @ six Olympics starting in Rome [1960] w/a 4:41.1 clocking. Overall Uncle Sam’s ladies have broken the world-record on 13 separate occasions, including a 4:38.1 effort by the august Santa Clara SC on that most appropriate of days, July 4, 1964, in Los Altos, CA. No word on whether Franklin led off that relay or what she split. Reportedly the other team members included Tracy Caulkins (breast), Jenny Thompson (fly) AND the redoubtable “ageless wonder” Dara Torres on the anchor!) 58.57pr Seebohm Olympics London 08-03-12 (28.61, 58.57 [29.96])


58.68 Seebohm Olympics London 07-30-12 (28.57, 58.68 [30.11]. (Note: fastest-ever non-winning Olympics time.) 58.77sf2* Kirsty Coventry, ZIM/Auburn Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 28.86, 58.77 [30.91]) (Note: second world-record of career, first in 100 back. Set 200 back global-standard [2:06.29] earlier ths year @ Missouri Grand Prix. First non-South African African wr-setter. Last African woman to break 100 back wr: RSA’s Karen Muir, 1:05.6 @ Utrecht, 07/06/69.) 58.78p Spofforth World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 28.64, 58.78 [30.14]) 58.83* Aya Terakawa, JPN Olympics London 04-30-12 (28.96, 58.83 [29.87]) 58.84 Terakawa JPN Nationals/WCTs Nigata 04-12-13 (28.72, 58.84 [30.12]) 58.85 Franklin U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-27-12 (Splits: 29.11, 58.85 [29.74]. (Note: first American record of career, first time Nataliie Coughlin has not held mark – with the brief excepton of the 2008 Olympic Trials -- since 2K1 World Championships. During the Trials Sinanyley McGregory swam a 59.15 in heats to break Coughlin’s then wr – but Coughlin got it back shortly afterwards w/a 59.03p. (Note: first U.S. woman to hold domestic 100-200 meter backstroke records since Coughlin got 200 standard @ 2K2 U.S. Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, and held both until Margaret Hoelzer broke 200 @ 2K7 World Championships. (Note: first Olympic berth.) 58.88 Seebohm World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Splits: 28.73, 58.88 [30.16]) 58.94r Natalie Coughlin, USA/Cal Olympics Beijing 08-17-08 (Splits: 28.39, 58.94 [30.55]) 58.94r(a) Zhao Jing, CHN 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 11-13-10 (Splits: 28.72, 58.94 [30.22]. (Note: Games record.) 58.96 Coughlin Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 28.92, 58.96 [30.04]. (Note: second-consecutive gold; first woman to accomplish this feat. Teammate Aaron Peirsol won 100 back gold immediately preceding Coughlins swim so they’re first swimmers from same country to win golds on same day. Both also won @ Athens four years earlier but on different days. Americans Beth Botsford/Jeff Rouse won @ Atlanta [1996] but again on different days.) 58.96r Spofforth World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Splits: 29.14, 58.96 [29.83]) 58.96 Jing 11th National Games Jinan 10-19-09 (Splits: 28.60, 58.96 [30.36]) 58.97 Coughlin U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-30-08 (Splits: 28.45, 58.97 [30.52]. (Note: 2001, ’07 World Champion, 100 meter backstroke.

(Note: fifth world-record of career, second in two days and third in 2008. She’s now tied with Lynn Burke for most-ever by an American. East Germany’s Ulrike Richter has most all-time with nine. (Note: moments earlier, American Aaron Peirsol broke his own wr in men’s race with a 52.89. When Coughlin then followed suit, it marked third time a man and a woman from same nation had set wrs in same meet on same day. On final day of ‘07 Worlds BOTH USA’s Katie Hoff & Michael Phelps set wrs in 400 IM, then matched this feat a year later @ the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha. During the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Americans Thompson Mann/Cathy Ferguson almost accomplished this same feat but there was a two-day difference. Ferguson set her wr (1:07.7) en route to gold on 10/14; Mann swam his 59.6 global standard two days later. Mann’s time was first sub-1:00.0 clocking. Three years later [August, 1967], coincidentally in Tokyo, American Doug Russell broke Mann’s record with a 59.5. One day later, Russell matched Mark Spitz’s 56.3 world-record in the 100 butterfly. A year later, Russell won Olympic gold in the 100 fly @ Mexico City, defeating, among others, Spitz.)

58.97 Zueva RUS Olympic Trials Moscow 04-22-12 (Splits: 29.10, 58.97 [29.87]. 58.98r Jing World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Splits: 28.79, 58.98 [30.19])


58.99r Terakawa Olympics London 08-04-12 (Splits: 29.11, 58.99 [29.88]) 59.00p Coventry Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 28.99, 59.00 [30.01]) 59.00 Zueva Olympics London 07-30-12 (Splits: 28.82, 59.00 [30.18]) 59.01p Zueva World Champiuonships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 28.87, 59.01[30.14]) 59.01r Seebohm Olympics London 08-04-12 (Splits: 28.75, 59.01 [30.26]) 59.03p Coughlin U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-30-08 (Splits: 28.68, 59.03 [31.35]) 59.04r Chang Gao, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-24-09 (Splits: 29.04, 59.04 [30.00]) 59.05r Spofforth Olympics Beijing 08-17-08 (Splits: 29.04, 59.05 [30.01]) 59.05 Jing World Championships Shanghai 07-26-11 (Splits: 29.06, 59.05 [29.99].

(Note: second major international title [won Asian Games crown last year in a meet-record 58.94], second Asian/Chinese gold-medalist. Counrywoman Cihong He won @ Rome 17 years ago [100.57] although she, like the winners in 1973-’75 [GDR’s Ulrike Ricther] and ’82 [Kristen Otto] teportedly had a ’few extra “tigers” in their tanks.)

59.06 Zueva World Championships Shanghai 07-26-11 (Splits: 28.87, 59.06 [30.19]. (Note: second-consecutive runner-up finish.) 59.06sf2 Franklin U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-26-12 (Splits: 29.17, 59.06 [29.89]) 59.08 Terakawa 6th Japan Open Tokyo 05-25-12 (Splits: 28.62, 59.08 [30.46]) 59.10 Terakawa JPN Olympic Trials Tokyo 04-05-12 (Splits: 28.82, 59.10 [30.28]. (Note: win, then a Japanese record, places her on third-consecutive Olympic team @ age 28.). 59.10sf1 Rachel Bootsma, USA/Cal U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-26-12 (Splits: 28.84, 59.10 [30.26]) 59.11p Hayley McGregory, USATexas/USC U.S. Open Minneapolis 08-01-08 (Splits: 28.58, 59.11 [30.53]. (Note: meet record.) 59.12r Coughlin World Championships Shanghai 07-30-11 (Splits: 28.66, 59.12 [30.46]. (Note: leadoff leg on gold-medal winning 400 medley relay. Fastest leadoff of race.) 59.12sf1 Franklin Olympics London 07-29-12 (29.09, 59.12 [30.03]) 59.13 Terakawa 65th National Sports Festival Chiba 09-11-10 (Splits: 28.86, 59.13 [30.27]) 59.13r Zueva World Championships Shanghai 07-30-11 (Splits: 28.72, 59.13 [31.41]) 59.13r Zueva Olympics London 08-04-12 (Splits: 28.85, 59.13 [30.28]) 59.14 Shiho Sakai, JPN World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 28.89, 59.14 [30.25]) (Note: world record-holder, 100 m backstroke [scm], 55.23, World Cup, Berlin, 11-14-09 [splits: 26.73, 55.23]) 59.15p McGregory U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-30-08 (Splits: 28.67, 59.15 [31.48]) (Note: first world-record of career but lasted less than five minutes. Natalie Coughlin swam a 59.03 in next heat!)) 59.15sf1 Seebohm World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 28.87, 59.15 [30.28]) 59.15 Coughlin World Championships Shanghai 07-26-11 (Splits: 28.44, 59.15 [29.71])


59.16r Zueva Olympics Beijing 08-17-08 (Splits: 29.05, 59.16[30.11]) 59.16 Terakawa New South Wales Open Championships Sydney 03-16-13 (29.14, 59.16 [30.02]) (Note: Australian Open-“All Comers” record. Fastest all-time Southern Hemisphere.) 59.17 Terakawa JPN World Championship Trials Shizuoka 04-09-11 (Splits: 28.65, 59.17 [30.52]) 59.17 Seebohm AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 04-28-13 (Splits: 28.93, 59.17 [30.24]) Remaining Top 50 Performers 59.21 Margaret Hoelzer, USA/Auburn U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-01-08 (Splits: 29.25, 59.21 [29.96]. 59.29 Belinda Hocking, AUS Olympics London 07-30-12 (29.35, 59.29 [29.94]) 59.36 Reiko Nakamura, JPN Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 28.92, 59.36 [30.44]) 59.40sf Zhou Yanxin, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-18-09 (Splits: 28.84, 59.40 [30.56]) 59.43 Elizabeth Simmonds, GBR GBR Nats./European Champs./CG Trials Sheffield 03-31-10 (Splits: 28.99, 59.43 [30.44]) 59.50sf* Laure Manaudou, FRA XXIX European Championships Eindhoven 03-20-08

(Splits: 29.45, 59.50 [30.05]) 59.56 Fu Yuanhui, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Zhengzhou 04-04-13 (Splits: 29.37, 59.56 [30.29]) 59.68sf1* Sinead Russell, CAN/Florida World Championships Shanghai 07-25-11 (Splits: 28.92, 59.68 [30.76]) 59.69* Mie Nielsen. DEN DEN Open Championships Bronshoj 03-24-12 (Splits: 29.15, 59.69 [30.54]. (Note: first – and ONLY – Scandanavian woman sub 1:00.0.) 59.77sf2* Daniela Samulski, GER World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 28.61, 59.77 [31.16]) (Note: fastest non-finals qualifer all-time [ninth]. (Note: silver-medalist/European record-setter, 50 meter backstroke.) 59.82sf1 Olivia Smoliga, USA U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-26-12 (Splits: 29.04, 59.82 [30.78]) 59.83 Hanae Itou, JPN JPN Olympic Trials Tokyo 04-17-08

(Splits: 29.42, 59.83 [30.41]) 59.84 Sophie Edington, AUS AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-24-08

(Splits: 29.06, 59.84 [30.78]) 59.85 Julia Wilkinson, CAN/Texas A&M CAN Olympic Trials Montreal 03-28-12 (Splits: 29.41, 59.85 [30.44]. (Note: 2K9 NCAA Division gold-medalist, 100 yard freestyle.) 59.85 Jenny Mensing, GER GEE Olympic Trials Berlin 05-13-12 (Splits: 29.38, 59.85 [30.47]) 59.92p Georgia Davies, GBR Olympics London 07-29-12

(Splits: 29.19, 59.92 [30.73]) 59.99 Elizabeth Pelton, USA/Cal 4th EDF Paris Open Paris 06-17-10 (Splits: 29.18, 59.99 [30.81]) 59.99p* Simone Baumrtova, CZE Olympics London 07-29-12

(Splits: 29.31, 59.99 [30.68]) 1:00.00 Esther Baron, FRA FRA Nationals/WCTs Montpellier 04-22-09 1:00.03p* Femke Heemskerk, NED Amsterdam Swim Cup Amserdam 03-11-11 1:00.05sf2* Daryna Zevina, UKR World Championships Shanghai 07-25-11 1:00.07r*’ Fabiola Molina, BRA/Tennessee World Championships Rome 08-01-09 1:00.14sf2 Sharon van Rouwendaal, NED World Championships Shanghai 07-25-11 1:00.16r Cihong He, CHN World Championships Rome 09-10-94 1:00.16p Alexiane Castel, FRA Olympics London 07-29-12


1:00.19 Megan Romano, USA/Georgia Longhorn Invitational Elite Austin 06-03-12 1:00.21* Diana Mocanu, ROM Olympics Sydney 09-18-00 (Note: gold-medalist.) 1:00.21 Yanyan Chen, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Xaoxing 04-07-09 1:00.21 Katy Murdoch, CAN Tri Nations Cup Crystal Palace [London] 08-02-09 1:00.21r Jen Connolly, USA/Tennessee World University Games Shenzhen 08-18-11 1:00.22 Yingjuan Zhen, CHN 8th National Games Shanghai 10-15-97 1:00.22* Emily Thomas, NZL ZOOGS/Queensland St. Championships Brisbane 12-15-09 1:00.24p* Arianna Barbieri, ITA XXXI European Championships Debrecen 05-23-12 1:00.24* Katinka Hosszu, HUN/USC IRL Nationals/WCTs Dublin 04-25-13 (Note: old Hungarian record, 1:00.31, Krisztina Egerszegi, 1991 European Championships [Athens]) 1:00.29* Nina Zhivanevskaya, ESP XXIX European Championships Eindhoven 03-21-08 1:00.31 Krisztina Egerszegi, HUN XX European Championships Athens 08-22-91 1:00.32p Mariya Gromova, RUS World Championships Rome 07-27-09 1:00.33r Antje Buschschulte, GER World Championships Barcelona 07-26-03 200 METER BACKSTROKE Top 51 Performances 2:04.06** Missy (The Missile) Franklin, USA Olympics London 08-03-12 (Splits: 29.53, 1:00.50 [30.97], 1:32.16 [31.66], 2:04.06 [31.90]. (Note: 100 split fastest all-time en route to 200 clocking. (Note: Franklin’s first world-record, first American world record-setter since Margaret Hoelzer swam a 2:06.09 to win the 2008 Olympic Trials in Omaha. First U.S. gold-medalist since Melissa Belote won @ Munich 40 years ago [1972]. (Note: third U.S. woman to win both 100-200 backs @ an Olympics. Before Belote, Lynn Watson did it @ Mexico City [1968]. Last woman from any nation to win both @ same Olympics: Romania’s Diana Mocanu [Sydney, Y2K[. (Note: U.S. has three wins and a world-record each time! Who wudda thunk it? Not EVEN Jim Plunkett! (Note: 2K12 Sullivan Award winner, emblematic of USA’s top amateur athlete. First swimming winner since some guy from Baltimore a decade ago. (Note: 17-18 NAG record.)

2:04.81+*# Kirsty Coventry, ZIM/Auburn World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Splits: 29.44, 1:00.91 [31.47], 1:32.81 [31.90], 2:04.81 [32.00]. (Note: second gold-medal. Won in 2005 [Montreal, 2:08.52]. (Note: has now won every major competition she’s swum in since 2004 Olympics save for 2006 Commonwealth Games [where she was ineligible to compete as Zimbabwe was excluded from competition] and the 2007 World Championships [where she finished runner-up to former Auburn teammate Margaret Hoelzer]. (Note: third 200 back world-record of career, second-most all-time by an African woman. South Africa’s Karen Muir broke the standard four times during her career in mid-1960s [from 2:27.1 in 1966 to 2:23.8 two years later. (Note: win ties Coventry with GDR’s Corrnelia Sirch [1982, ‘86] as only women to win race twice.)

2:04.94*+ Anastasia Zueva, RUS World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Splits: 30.23, 1:02.21 [31.98], 1:333.58 [33.57], 2:04.94 [31.36])

2:05.10 Franklin World Championships Shanghai 07-30-11 (Splits: 29.43, 1:01.15 [31.72], 1:33.24 [32.09], 2:05.10 [21.86]. (Note: second time in two days she has broken American Record. (Note: 15-16 NAG record.

(Note: world record-holder, 200 meter backstroke [scm], 2:00.03, World Cup, Berlin, 10-22-11. First global-standard of career and first women’s world-record under new suit regulations adopted by FINA as of 01/01/10.) 2:05.24 Coventry Olympics Beijing 08-16-08 (Splits: 29.62, 1:00.83 [31.21], 1:32.69 [31.86], 2:05.24 [32.55]) (Note: second-consecutive title. Hungary’s Kristina Egerszegi, with three 200 back Olympic golds [Seoul, 1988; Barcelona, 1992; Atlanta, 1996] only swimmer to “threepeat.” Australia’s Dawn Fraser [100 free, Melbourne, 1956; Rome, 1960, Tokyo, 1964] only other Olympic “threepeater.” (Note: Coventry third African woman to win gold in ANY Olympic swimming event, first to score back-to-back titles. (Note: Coventry first swimmer since Egerszegi [1991 Europoean Championships @ Athens] to set world records in both 100-200 backstrokes in same competition. Egerszegi’s times: 1:00.31/2:06.62. (Note: Coventry’s second gold ties her w/South Africa’s Penny Heyns for most by an African woman.)


2:05.86sf2 Coventry World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 29.91, 1:01.98 [32.07], 1:34.30 [32.22], 2:05.86 [31.66]. (Note: fastest-ever qualifying time.) 2:05.90sf2 Franklin World Championships Shanghai 07-29-11 (Splits: 29.92, 1:01.78 [31.86], 1:33.92 [32.14]. 2:05.90 [31.88]. (Note: first American record of career.) 2:05.92 Zueva Olympics London 08-03-12 (Splits: 29.93, 1:01.89 [31.96], 1:34.21 [32.32], 2:05.92 [31.71]. (Note: first Olympic medal [silver]) 2:06.06*+ Belinda Hocking, AUS World Championships Shanghai 07-30-11 (Splits: 30.46, 1:02.24 [31.78], 1:33.99 [31.75], 2:06.06 [32.07]) 2:06.09 Margaret Hoelzer, USA/Auburn U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-05-08 (Splits: 30.57, 1:02.17 [32.60], 1:34.02 [32.85], 2:06.09 [32.07]. (Note: first American since Texas’ Betsy Mitchell [2:08.60 @ U.S. World Championships Trials, Orlando, 06/27/85] to break world-record. First Auburn female American to set a world-record.

(Note: Trials record.) 2:06.12 Franklin U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-01-12 (Splits: 29.99, 1:01.46 [31.47], 1:33.58 [32.12], 2:06.12 [32.54]. (Note: fastest all-time in a U.S. pool under new suit regulations adopted by FINA as of 01/01/10.) 2:06.18sf1 Elizabeth Beisel, USA/Florida Olympics London 08-02-12 (Splits: 30.19, 1:02.13 [31.94], 1:34.48 [32.35], 2:06.18 [31.70]. (Note: 2K12 NCAA Division 1 gold-medalist, 200 yard backstroke.) 2:06.23 Hoelzer Olympics Beijing 08-16-08 (Splits: 29.83, 1:01.69 [31.86], 1:33.85 [32.16], 2:06.23 [32.38]. (Note: first American medalist since Whitney Hedegepeth [silver, Atlanta, 1996]. Took silver.) 2:06.39 Coventry Toyota/Missouri Grand Prix Columbia 02-16-08 (Splits: 30.15, 1:02.17 [32.02], 1:37.51 [32.34], 2:06.39 [31.88]. (Note: first Zimbabwe swimmer to set a world-record for either sex. First non-South African African to set a world-record. Last African 200 back wr-setter: Karen Muir [2:23.1] @ Losa Angeles Invitational, 07/21/68. That record was swum in same pool used for 1932 Olympics competition.)

2:06.39 Beisel World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Splits: 30.32, 1:02.27 [32.05], 1:34.51 [32.24], 2:06.39 [31.88])

2:06.46a Zhao Jing, CHN 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 11-14-10 (Splits: 30.40, 1:03.13 [32.73], 1:26.01 [32.88], 2:06.46 [30.45]. (Note: Games record. (Note: old NR, 2:07.40, Cihong He, 1994 World Championships, Rome [time won gold]) 2:06.55 Beisel Olympics London 08-03-12 (Splits: 30.12, 1:0204 [31.92], 1:34.40 [32.36], 2:06.55 [32.15]) 2:06.59 Zueva RUS Olympic Trials Moscow 04-19-12 (Splits: 29.68, 1:01.78 [32.10], 1:34.49 [32.71], 2:06.59 [32.10])

2:06.62* Krisztina Egerszegi, HUN XX European Championships Athens 08-25-91 (Splits: 30.55, 1:02.34 [31.89], 1:34.79 [32.45], 2:06.62 [31.83]. (Note: world-record lasted 17 years, 5 months, 22 days until broken by Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry in 2008.)

2:06.64* Laure Manaudou, FRA FRA Olympic Trials Dunkirk 04-26-08 (Splits: 29.27, 1:01.41 [32.14], 1:35.53 [34.14], 2:06.64 [31.11])

2:06.66* Gemma Spofforth, GBR/Florida World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Splits: 30.36, 1:02.97 [32.61], 1:35.60 [32.63], 2:06.66 [31.06]) (Note: world record-holder/2009 World Champion, 100 meter backstroke. (Note: U.S. Open/NCAA Division 1 record-holder/2008-‘09 gold-medalist, 200 yard backstroke.) 2:06.68 Hocking AUS Olympic Trials Adelaide 03-21-12 (Splits: 30.51, 1:01.94 [31.43], 1:34.08 [32.14], 2:06.68 [32.60].

(Note: Trials record. Fastest all-time in Southern Hemisphere.) 2:06.72p Coventry World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 30.43, 1:02.48 [31.05], 1:35.04 [32.56], 2:06.72 [31.68]. (Note: second- fastest preliminary time ever.)

2:06.76p Coventry Olympics Beijing 08-14-08 (Splits: 30.17, 1:02.11 [31.94], 1:34.65 [32.54], 2:06.76 [32.11])


2:06.79 Elizabeth Simmonds, GBR GBR Nats,/European Champs./CG Trials Sheffield 04-02-10 (Splits: 29.92, 1:01.61 [31.69], 1:34.36 [32.75], 2:06.79 [32.43]. (Note: fastest-ever in a British pool by a British swimmer.) 2:06.83 Coventry Japan 2007 International Invitational Chiba 08-21-07 (Splits: 30.05, 1:01.92 [31.87], 1:34.52 [32.60], 2:06.83 [32.21])

2:06.84sf2 Franklin Olympics London 08-02-12 (Splits: 30.17, 1:02.15 [31.98], 1:34.64 [32.49], 2:06.84 [32.20]) 2:06.88 Hocking AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 04-07-11 (Splits: 30.53, 1:02.27 [30.74], 1:34.34 [32.07], 2:06.88 [32.54]) 2:06.90 Simmonds British University Championships Sheffield 02-12-10 (Splits: 30.12, 1:02.01 [31.89], 1:34.56 [32.55], 2:06.90 [27.34])

2:06.92 Beisel U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-05-08 (Splits: 30.81, 1:02.82 [32.01], 1:35.15 [32.33], 2:06.92 [31.77])

2:06.99 Coventry XLII Santa Clara International Invitational Santa Clara 06-14-09 (Splits: 30.56, 1:02.42 [31.86], 1:35.00 [32.58], 2:06.99 [31.99]. (Note: meet/Pacific Swimming Open-“All Comer” records. Fastest-ever swum in Golden State!)

2:07.00sf2 Zueva World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 30.31, 1:03.26 [32.95], 1:35.02 [31.76], 2:07.00 [31.98])

2:07.04 Simmonds XXX European Championships Budapest 08-10-10 (Splits: 30.00, 1:01.86 [31.86], 1:34.45 [32.49[, 2:07.02 [32.89]. (Note: Simmonds’ first major international title. First British woman gold-medalist since 1958, when 1956 Melbourne Olympic champ Judy Grinham edged teammate Margaret Edwards.)

2:07.06 Egerszegi Olympics Barcelona 07-31-92 (Splits: 30.43, 1:02.39 [31.96], 1:35.10 [32.71], 2:07.06 [31.96].

(Note: second-consecutive gold.) 2:07.13* Reiko Nakamura, JPN Olympics Beijing 08-16-08 (Splits: 30.14, 1:02.11 [31.97], 1:34.28 [32.17], 2:07.13 [32.85]. (Note: third-consecutive bronze-medal. Montreal, Melbourne 2K05-’07 Worlds; ‘08 Olympics. There ought to be a law!) 2:07.14 Franklin U.S. Nationals Atlanta 12-03-11 (Splits: 30.56, 1:02.87 [32.31, 1:35.36 [32.49], 2:07.14 [31.78]. (Note: U.S. National Championships record.) 2:07.16 Hoelzer World Championships Melbourne 03-31-07 (Splits: 30.39, 1:02.79 [32.40], 1:35.06 [32.27], 2:07.16 [3210]. (Note: third U.S. gold-medalist. Hoelzer’s first and only international gold.)

2:07.16 Meagan Nay, AUS XLIV Santa Clara International Grand Prix Santa Clara 06-18-11 (Splits: 30.54, 1:02.90 [32.36], 1:35.25 [32.35], 2:07.16 [31.91]) 2:07.17 Hocking AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 05-02-13

(Splits: 31.19, 1:03.77 [32.58], 1:34.97 [31.20], 2:07.17 [32.20]) 2:07.21sf1 Simmonds World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 29.86, 1:02.07 [32.21], 1:34.47 [32.40], 2:07.21 [32.74])

2:07.24 Egerszegi XXII European Championships Vienna 08-27-95 (Splits: 30.52, 1:02.48 [31.96], 1:35.36 [32.78], 2:07.24 [31.88])

2:07.26 Simmonds Olympics London 08-03-12 (Splits: 29.74, 1:01.77 [32.03], 1:34.34 [32.57], 2:07.26 [32.92]) 2:07.31 Franklin Arena Grand Prix Austin 01-19-13 (Splits: ---. 1:03.22, 1:35.66 [32.14], 2:07.31 [31.65]) 2:07.34p Egerszegi Olympics Barcelona 07-31-92 (Splits: 30.48, 1:02.45 [31.97], 1:35.56 [33.11], 2:07.34 [31.78])

2:07.40 Cihong He, CHN World Championships Rome 09-11-94 (Splits: 30.20, 1:02.38 [32.18], 1:35.00 [32.62], 2:07.40 [32.40])

2:07.41 Nay JPN Dual Meet/”Duel in the Pool I” Canberra 05-10-09 (Splits: 30.12, 1:02.66 [32.54], 1:34.84 [32.18], 2:07.41 [32.57])

2:07.42sf1 Nay Olympics London 08-02-12 (Splits: 30.23, 1:02.19 [31.96], 1:34.90 [32.71], 2:07.42 [32.52])


2:07.43 Nay Olympics London 08-03-12 (Splits: 30.23, 1:02.45 [32.22], 1:34.93 [32.48], 2:07.43 [32.50]) 2:07.44p Beisel U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-04-08 (Splits: 30.78, 1:03.19 [32.41], 1:35.63 [32.44], 2:07.44 [31.81])

2:07.48sf2 Beisel World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 30.70, 1:02.36 [32.56], 1:35.60 [32.34], 2:07.48 [31.88])

2:07.48p Elizabeth Pelton, USA/Cal Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-20-10 (Splits: 30.45, 1:02.89 [32.44], 1:35.13 [32.24], 2:07.48 [32.35]. (Note: silver-medalist.

(Note: U.S. Open/American/NCAA Division 1 record-setter, 2K13 gold-medalist, 200 yard backstroke.) Remaining Top 50 Performers 2:07.55 Alexianne Castel, FRA FRA Nationals/WCTs Montpellier 04-25-09 (Splits: 30.87, 1:02.23 [31.86], 1:34.50 [32.27], 2:07.55 [33.05])

2:07.69 Hayley McGregory, USA/USC U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-05-08 (Splits: 29.54, 1:01.62 [32.08], 1:34.78 [33.16], 2:07.69 [32.92]. (Note: second-consecutive Trials “show” placing. Third in 2004 @ Long Beach. There ought to be a law!))

2:07.73 Aya Terakawa, JPN 49th Trofeo Sette Colli/Herbalife Invitational Rome 06-16-12 (Splits: 30.00, 1:02.53 [32.53], 1:35.61 [33.08], 2:07.73 [32.12]. (Note: meet-record.)

2:07.74 Shiho Sakai, JPN XXIX EME Mtng. de Monaco/Mare NostrumMonte Carlo 06-11-11 (Splits: 29.96 1:02.58 [32.54], 1:35.48 [32.90], 2:07.74 [32.26]. (Note: meet/Mare Nostrum series records.)

2:07.78* Sharon van Rouwendaal, NED World Championships (Splits: 30.54, 1:03.26 [32.72], 1:35.74 [32.48], 2:07.78 [33.04]. (Note: first Dutch medalist [bronze] since countrywoman Enith Brigitha won silver @ inaugural World Championships [Belgrade, 1973] with her then NR 2:22.15.) 2:07.82* Daryna Zevina, UKR World Championships Shanghai 0730-30 (Splits: 30.28, 1:02.68 [32.40], 1:35.06 [32.37], 2:07.82 [32.77]) 2:07.89 Jiani Zhu, CHN CHN Nationals Rizhao 09-22-11 (Splits: 30.32, 1:02.27 [31.95], 1:34.63 [32.56], 2:07.89 [33.26])

2:08.03* Alessia Filippi, ITA XVI Mediterranean Games Pescara 06-28-09 (Splits: 31.38, 1:03.42 [32.04], 1:35.66 [32.24], 2:08.03 [32.37]. (Note: Games record.)

2:08.04* Sinead Russell, CAN/Florida CAN Olympic Trials Montreal 04-01-12 (Splits: 30.21, 1:02.70 [33.49], 1:35.35 [32.65], 2:08.04 [32.69)

2:08.05 Federica Pelligrini, ITA ITA Nationals/WCTs Riccione 04-12-13 (Splits: 30.93, 1:03.25 [32.32], 1:35.55 [32.30], 2:08.05 [33.03]) (Note: second competitive 200 back swim of career. Swam 2:10+ a month earlier. The same day she swam thus 2:08.05 to win Pelligrini also went 1:56.51 to win the 200 free. (Note: world record-holder, 200-400 meter freestyles; Olympic gold-medalist, 200 meter freestyle [Beijng, 2K8])

2:08.16* Diana Mocanu, ROU Olympics Sydney 09-22-00 (Splits: 31.56, 1:03.67 (32.11), 1:36.21 [32.54], 2:08.16 [31.95]. (Note: gold-medalist.)

2:08.19 Emily Seebohm, AUS AUS Nats./Commonwealth Games Trials Sydney 103-20-10 (Splits: 19.61, 1:02.07 [32.45], 1:25.72 [33.65], 2:08.19 [32.47]) 2:08.30* Jenny Mensing, GER GER Olympic Trials Berlin 05-11-12 2:08.39 Daria Ustinova, RUS RUS Nationals/WCTs Kazan 04-17-13 2:08.40 Anqi Bai, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-23-09

2:08.51 Yingjuan Zhan, CHN 8th National Games Shanghai 10-19-97 2:08.52 Mai Kamimura, JPN 2K10 Japan Open Tokyo 06-05-10 2:08.53 Natalie Coughlin, USA/Cal U.S. Nationals/Pan-Pac Trials Fort Lauderdale 08-16-02

2:08.56 Sayaka Akase, JPN 66th National Sports Festival Yamaguchi 09-09-11 (Note: Sports Festival record.) 2:08.60 Betsy Mitchell, USA/Texas U.S. World Championship Trials Orlando 06-27-86

2:08.74 Katy Sexton, GBR World Championships Barcelona 07-26-03 (Note: gold-medalist. First British woman to win an individual World Championships title.)

2:08.80 Hanae Itou, JPN XLVI RomAquatica/Sette Colli Invitational Rome 06-07-08


2:09.01 Zhao Yanxin, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-23-09 2:09.03sf1 Bonnie Brandon, USA U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-30-12 2:09.08 Megan Romano, USA/Georgia U.S. Open Indianapolis 08-08-12 2:09.09 Janie Wagstaff, USA/Florida U.S. Nationals Federal Way 04-04-91 2:09.12 Ye Shiwen, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Zhengzhou 04-07-13 2:09.13* Melissa Ingram, NZL ZOOGS/Queensland State Champiomnships Brisbane 12-15-09 2:09.14 Femke Heemskerk, NED FRA Natuonals/WCTs Strasbourg 03-23-11

2:09.14 Hilary Caldwell, CAN CAN Olympic Trials Montreal 04-01-12 2:09.22 Kristen Heiss, USA/Texas A&M World University Games Belgrade 07-06-09

2:09.30 Tomoyo Fukuda, JPN 5th East Asian Games Hong Kong 12-06-09 (Note: Games record.) 2:09.35 Alexandra Putra, FRA/Georgia FRA Olympic Trials Dunkirk 04-26-08 2:09.39sf Stanislava Komarova, RUS World Championships Barcelona 07-25-03 2:09.43 Chang Gao, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-23-09

50 METER BREASTSTROKE Top 50 Performances 29.80s** Jessica Hardy, USA/Cal U.S. Open Federal Way 08-07-09 (Note: 50 split en route to world-record 1:04.45 100 breast clocking. (Note: first time same swimmer has set 50/100 world records in same swim. Hardy’s first lcm 100 breast world-record. (Note: world record-holder, 50 meter breaststroke [scm], 28.80, World Cup, Berlin, 11-15-09.)

29.95s Hardy U.S. Open Federal Way 08-06-09 (Note: 50 split in exhibition 100 breast swim in which she clocked 1:10.57.)

30.03 Hardy Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-20-10 (Reaction Time: +0.069. (Note: Championships/Southern California Swimming [SCS] Open”All Comers” records. (Note: fastest-ever textile.) 30.05 Yuliya Efimova, RUS RUS Nationals/WCTs Moscow 04-29-09 30.09*+ Efimova World Championships Rome 08-02-09 (Note: World Championships/European records. Her 30.05 never ratified as wt as she wore an illegal suit.)

30.11 Rebecca Soni, USA/USC World Championships Rome 08-02-09 (Note: Olympic gold-medalist, 200 meter breaststroke [Beijing, 2008]; World Champion, 100 meter breaststroke [Rome, 2009])

30.15 Zueva RUS Olympic Trials Moscow 04-21-12 30.16+* Sarah Katsoulis, AUS World Championships Rome 08-02-09 30.17 Valentina Artemyeva, RUS RUS Nationals/WCTs Moscow 04-29-09 30.17 Hardy Ttofeu Prof. Maria Lenk/BRA Nats,-WCTs Rio de Janeiro 05-07-11 (Note: South Ameican Open/”All Comers” record.) 30.19 Hardy World Championships Shanghai 07-31-11 (Note: second gold. Also won @ Melbourne four years earlier. (Note: fastest-ever textile @ World Championships.) 30.20p Hardy World Championshps Shanghai 07-30-11 (Note: fastest ever qualifying time.) 30.23sf Efimova RUS Nationals/WCTs Moscow 04-28-09 30.23* Amanda Reason, CAN CAN Nationals/WCTs Montreal 07-08-09 30.24p Efimova World Championships Rome 08-01-09 30.24 Leiston Pickett, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 04-08-11 30.29 Efimova XXX European Championships Budapest 08-15-10 (Note: Championships record.) 30.31p Jade Edmistone, AUS AUS Nats./Commonwealth Games Trials Melbourne 01-30-06 30.32p Artemyeva RUS Nationals/WCTs Moscow 04-28-09 30.32 Artemyeva RUS Nationals/WCTs Moscow 04-28-09 30.32qf Artemyeva XXVII Meeting de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-14-09 (Note: meet/Mare Nostrum series records.) 30.32sf2 Efimova XXX European Chammpionships Budapest 08-14-10 30.33p Katdoulis World Championships Rome 08-01-09


30.34p Kasey Carlson, USA World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Note: 17-18 NAG record.) 30.34sf1 Katsoulis World Championships Rome 08-01-09 30.35 Efimova XXVIII Mtng. de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-06-10 30.35sf Zueva RUS Olympic Trials Moscow 04-20-12 30.36s Megan Jendrick, USA PNS Senior Championships Mt. Hood 07-24-09 (Note: hand-timed.)

30.37sf Edmistone AUS Nats./Commonwealth Games Trials Melbourne 01-30-06 30.38sf1* Moniek Nijhuis, NED World Championships Rome 08-01-09 30.38sf Efimova XXVIII Meeting de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-06-10 30.39 Artemeyva XXVII Meeting.de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-14-09 30.39p Hardy Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-20-10 30.40 Jendrick Speedo/PNS Sectional Championships Federal Way 07-25-09 30.40sf2 Efimova World Championships Rome 08-01-09 30.42sf2 Artemeyva XXVII Meeting de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-13-09 30.40sf2 Hardy World Championshps Shanghai 07-30-11 30.42sf2 Reason World Championships Rome 08-01-09 30.43 Hardy XLIV Santa Clara International Grand Prix Santa Clara 07-18-11 30.44 Efimova XXXI Ciutat de Barcelona/Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-09-10 30.45 Edmistone World Championships Montreal 07-30-05 30.45 Tarrnee White, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-17-09 30.45 Katsoulis Speedo/AIS Invitational Canberra 11-27-09 30.46sf1 Carlson World Championships Rome 08-01-09 30.46 Nijhuis World Championships Rome 08-02-09 30.46a Hui Jia Chen, CHN 5th East Asian Games Hong Kong 12-06-09 (Note: Games record.) 30.46 Efimova RUS Nationals/WCTs Moscow 04-21-11 30.47p(s) Reason CAN Nationals/WCTs Montreal 07-09-09 (Note: 50 split en route to a then national-record 1:06.77 prelim 100 breast clocking.)

30.48p Katsoulis World Championships Rome 08-01-09 30.49 Efimova World Championships Shanghai 07-31-11 Remaining Top 50 Performers 30.53 Annamay Pierse, CAN World Championships Rome 08-02-09 30.55 “Lethal” Leisel Jones, AUS XXIV Meeeting.de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-04-06 (Note: 2007 World Champion, 100-200 meter breaststrokes. Olympic champion, 100 meter breaststroke [2008])

30.55sf2* Ruta Meilutyte, LTU Olympics London 07-29-12 (Note: 50 split off 1:05.21 semi finals 100 time, fastest semis time in Olympic history! (Note: 30.55 is fastest 100 split in Olympic history.)

30.57sf* Zoe Baker, GBR Commonwealth Games Manchester 07-30-02 30.64sfA Xuejuan Luo, CHN World Championships Barcelona 07-26-03 30.64 Randi Wang, CHN 5th East Asian Games Hong Kong 12-06-09

30.65* Jennie Johansson, SWE SWE Nationals/WCTs Norkopping 06-27-12 30.66 Li Ping Ji, CHN CHN Nationals Beijing 08-30-09 30.73* Achieng Ajulu -Bushnell, KEN Doha Gymnasiade Doha 12-11-09 30.77p* Kerstin Vogel, GER World Championships Rome 08-01-09

30.81*’ Tatiana Mayumi Sakemi, BRA Trofeu Maria Lenk/BRA Nationals-WCTs Rio de Janeiro 05-08-09 30.83 Tara Kirk, USA/Stanford XXV Meeting de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-17-07 30.83tt* Penny Heyns, RSA/Nebraska Pan-Pac Championships Sydney 08-29-99

30.83 Dorothea Brandt, GER GER Nationals/WCTs. Berlin 06-04-11 30.85s Breeja Larson, USA/Texas A&M Olympics London 07-30-12 30.89 Brooke Sinannson, AUS World Championships Montreal 07-31-05 30.89 Janne Schaefer, GER GER Nationals/WCTs Sinannnover 11-23-06

30.89 Annie Chander, USA/Arizona 5th Open EDF de Natation Paris 06-26-11 30.96* Sophie De Ronchi, FRA FRA Nationals/WCTs Montpellier 04-22-09

31.01p Rebecca Ejdervik, SWE/Arizona St. CAN Nationals/WCTs Victoria 03-01-11 (No Foolin’!)


31.01 Caroline Ruhnau, GER 5th Open EDF de Natation Paris 06-26-11 31.03sf1 Lowri Tynan, GBR [WAL] World Championships Rome 08-0`-09 31.05* Rikke Meller-Pedersen, DEN Danish Open Bronshoj 03-27-13

31.06* Alia Atkinson, JAM/Texas A&M XLVIIl Sette Colli Internazinale d’Italia Rome 06-18-11 31.08* Roberta Panara, ITA ITA Spring Nationals Riccione 03-05-09 31.08 Alessandra Marchioro, BRA BRA Nationals Sao Paulo 12-18-09 31.09sf2 Katharina Stiberg, NOR World Championships Rome 08-01-09 31.10 Ariana Kukors, USA/Washington Mel Zajac Jr. Invitational Vancouver 05-24-09 31.11p Georgina Holderness, GBR World Championships Rome 08-01-09

31.12* Anastasia Chrystoforou, CYP XVI Mediterranean Games Pescara 07-01-09 (Note: Games record. Only Cypriot medalist for either sex and it was golden!) 31.12 Katie Haywood, GBR XXX European Championships Budapest 08-15-10 31.13p Ana Carla Carvalho, BRA Trofeu Maria Lenk/BRA Nationals-WCTs Rio de Janeiro 05-08-08

31.13 Jin Zhao, CHN 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 11-13-10 31.13sf Natasha Waitzer, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 04-07-11 31.14* Concepcion Badillo, ESP XVI Mediterranean Games Pescara 07-01-09 31.14p* Katja Lehtnoen, FIN World Championships Rome 08-01-09 31.17 Emma Igelstrom, SWE XXVI European Championships Berlin 08-02-02

100 METER BREASTSTROKE Top 50 Performances 1:04.45** Jessica Hardy, USA/Cal U.S. Open Federal Way 08-07-09 (Splits: 29.80, 1:04.45 [34.65]. ((Reaction Time: +0.71. (Note: 50 split also a world-record. (Note: first time one swimmer has broken two world records in same race, third time one American has ever broken a “fellow” American’s world-record in 100 breast. (Note: Hardy’s first 100 breast final since coming off a year’s suspension for a doping violation. And her first meet. too. Swam an exhibition 100 free six days earlier @ a Junior Olympics competition, her only race prior to U.S. Open. (Note: fourth world-record of career. Broke 100 breast standard with her 1:06.20 during the semi finals of the 2005 World Championships in Montreal, then clocked a 29.95 50 breast here one day prior to her 50-100 breast records. (Note: 2008 World Champion, 50-100 breastsroke [scm, Manchester]. (Note: first 100 breast world-record in an American pool since Penny Heyns [South Africa/Nebraska] swam 1:06.99p/ 1:06.95 @ the Janet Evans Invitational in Los Angeles, July 18, 1999. Last American to break the world-record in an American pool was Catherine [Katie] Ball during the Olympic Trials in the Los Angeles Memorial Swim Stadium -- site of the 1932 Olympic swimming competition – on Aug. 25, 1968 [1:14.2] Ball broke her own wr from the previous week’s AAU Championships in Philadelphia [1:14.6].) 1:04.84sf2# Rebecca Soni, USA/USC World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 31.03, 1:04.84 [33.81]. (Reaction Time: +0.74. (Note: first 100 meter breaststroke world-record of career; first woman under 1:05.0 (Note: world record-holder, 100 meter breaststroke [scm], 1:02.20, “Duel in the Pool,” Manchester, 12-19-09. (Note: NCAA Division 1 100 yard breaststroke champion/record-setter, 2007-‘09) 1:04.91sf2 Soni World Championships Shanghai 07-25-11 (Splits: 30.78, 1:04.91 [34.13]. (Note: all-time fastest textile.) 1:04.93 Soni World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 31.00, 1:04.93 [33.93]) (Reaction Time: +0.75. (Note: Soni’s first World Championships medal [gold], second American winner. Kirsty Kowal [1998} first. (Note: fastest-ever winning time.) 1:04.93 Soni Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-19-10 (Splits: 30.96, 1:04.93 [33.97]. (Note: Championships/Southern California Swimming [SCS] Open/”All Comers” record.)


1:05.05 Soni World Championships Shanghai 07-26-11 (Splits: 30.70, 1:05.05 [34.35]. (Reaction Trime: +0.70. (Note: second-consecutive gold. Her 100 split her fastest ever en route to 200 clocking, second-fastest all-time.) 1:05.09*+ “Lethal” Leisel Jones, AUS Commonwealth Games Melbourne 03-21-06 (Splits: 30.83, 1:05.09 [34.26].

(Note: Games record, second-consecutive gold. Threepeated” @ New Delhi four years later. (Note: retired Nov. 16, 2012 @ age 27.) 1:05.17+ Jones Olympics Beijing 08-12-08 (Splits: 30.63, 1:05.17 [34.54] (Note: gold-medalist.) 1:05.21sf2+* Ruta Meilutyte, LTU Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 30.55, 1:05.21 [34.66]. (Note: fastest-ever Olympics semi-final time and 50 split fastest all-time @ an Olympics. (Note: second-performer/performance all-time Olympics.) 1:05.32a Liping Ji, CHN CHN Nationals Beijing 08-30-09 (Splits: 30.71, 1:05 .32 [34.61]) 1:05.34 Jones XLVI RomAquatica/Sette Colli Invitational Rome 06-06-08 (Splits: 30.82, 1:05.34 [34.52]) 1:05.34 Soni U.S. Nationals/WCTs Indianapolis 07-08-09 (Splits: 31.00, 1:05.34 [34.34]) 1:05.35 Kaitlin Freeman, USA/UCSB U.S. Open Federal Way 08-08-09 (Splits: 31.37, 1:05.335 [33.98]. (Note Gaucho/Big West Conference records. First UCSB female gold-medalist @ U.S.Open. Former Gaucho Jason Lezak, anchor on USA’s gold-medal winning/world record-setting 400 free relay @ Beijing Olympics, won 50-100 freestyles @ 2K3 U.S. Open to become only male UCSB winner.) 1:05.41*+ Yuliya Efimova, RUS World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 31.68, 1:05.41 [33.73]) 1:05.47 Hui Qi, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-18-09 (Splits: 33.02, 1:05.47 [33.45]. (Note: second-performer/performance all-time Asia. Fastest all-time after September 1.) 1:05.47 Meilutyte Olympics London 07-30-12 (Splits: 30.56, 1:05.47 [34.91]. (Note: Lithuania’s/Meilutyte’s first Olympic medal – and it was GOLDEN!

(Note: one of youngest winners of all-time, 15 years young [born: 1997]. USA’s Megan Quann was also 15 when she won this race @ Sydney [Y2K].

(Note: Lithuania has had three other Olympic medal winners who swam for the Soviet Union, i.e., Robertas Zhupa/ Lina Kachushite, both of whom won the 200 breast @ Moscow [1980] and Arvydas Jouzaitis, who took bronze in the 100 breast @ Montreal [1976]. (Note: Meilutyte lives in Plymouth, England and trains @ Plymouth College w/Coach John Rudd.) 1:05.54p Soni World Championships Shanghai 07-25-11 (Splits: 31.18, 1:05.54 [34.37]. (Note: fastest-ever prelim time. 1:05.55 Soni Olympics London 07-30-12 (Splits: 31.28, 1:05.55 [34.27]. (Note: second Olympic medal. Won 200 breast gold @ Beijing and would “twopeat” here w/a world-record swim.) 1:05.56p Meilutyte Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 30.58, 1:05.56 [34.98]. (Note: fastest-ever Olympic qualifying time.) 1:05.57 Soni Ultraswim Invitational Charlotte 05-13-11 (Splits: 30.89, 1:05.57 [34.68]) 1:05.60 Jones AUS Nats./World Championship Trials Brisbane 12-05-06 (Splits: 30.92, 1:05.60 [34.68])

1:05.64p Jones Olympics Beijing 08-11-08 (Splits: 31.13, 1:05.61 [34.48])


1:05.64 Hui Jia Chen, CHN 5th East Asian Games Hong Kong 12-08-09 (Splits: 30.80, 1:05.64 34.84]. (Note: Games record.) 1:05.66p Soni World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 31.20, 1:05.66 [34.46]) 1:05.66 Jones Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-19-10 (Splits: 31.06, 1:05.66 [23.60]) 1:05.71 Jones AUS Nats./Commonwealth Games Trials Melbourne 02-03-06 (Splits: 31.37, 1:05.71 [34.34]) (Note: set world-record in 200 meter breaststroke [2:20.54] two days earlier.) 1:05.72 Jones World Championships Melbourne 03-27-07 (Splits: 30.70, 1:05.72 [35.02]) (Note: second-consecutive title.)

1:05.72 Jones XXIX Ciutat de Barcelona/Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-11-08 (Splits 31.25, 1:05.72 [36.47]) (Note: meet/Mare Nostrum/Spanish Open/”All Comers” records.) 1:05.73(s) Soni World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 31.41, 1:05.73 [34.32]. (Note: 100 split en route to 2:22.15 200 clocking. Fastest 100 split all-time in 200 breast racer.) 1:05.73 Soni U.S. Nationals/Pan-Pac, WCTs Irvine 08-05-10 (Splits: 31.01, 1:05.73 [34.72]. 1:05.74* Annamay Pierse, CAN CAN Nationals/WCTs Montreal 07-09-09 (Splits: 30.99, 1:05.74 [23.75]) 1:05.75 Jones AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-24-08 (Splits: 30.93, 1:05.75 [36.82], (Note: Trials record.) 1:05.75 Kasey Carlson, USA World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 31.11, 1:05.75 [34.64]. (Note: 17-18 NAG record. Bronze-medalist in first international competition of career.) 1:05.75p Soni Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 31.70, 1:05.75 [34.05]) 1:05.79sf Jones AUS Nats./World Championship Trials Brisbane 12-04-06 (Splits: 30.88, 1:05.79 [34.91])

1:05.79 Jones AUS Nats./Commonwealth Games Trials Sydney 03-20-10 (Splits: 31.09, 1:05.79 [34.70]) 1:05.79 Soni Trofeu Prof. Maria Lenk/BRA WCTs Rio de Janeiro 05-03-11 (Splits: 31.07, 1:05.79 [34.72]) (Note: South American Open”All Comers” record. Eighth-fastest performance all-time in “Americas.”) 1:05.80sf2 Jones Olympics Beijing 08-11-08 (Splits: 31.13, 1:05.80 [34.67]) 1:05.80 Efimova RUS Nationals/WCTs Moscow 04-30-09 (Splits: 31.04, 1:05.80 [34.76]) 1:05.82sf2 Soni U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-26-12 (Splits: 31.57, 1:05.82 [34.25]. (Note: Trials record. Old record: 1:06.33, Soni, prelims.) 1:05.83p Soni XLIV Santa Clara International InvitationalSanta Clara 06-19-11 (Splits: 31.59, 1:05.83 [34.24])

(Note: Pacific Swimming Open/“All Comers” records. Scratched finals.) 1:05.83 Soni U.S. Nationals Atlanta 12-02-11 (Splits: 31.64, 1:05.83 [34.19]) 1:05.84sf1 Efimova World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 31.56, 1:05.84 [34.28]) 1:05.84 Jones Commonwealth Games New Delhi 10-08-10 (Splits: 31.24, 1:05.84 [34.60]. (Note: Jones’ third-consecutive gold. Also “threepeated” in 200 breast. Second woman to “threepeat” in same event . Countrywoman Petria Thomas won 100 fly thrice [1994, Victoria; 1998, Kuala Lumpur; 2K2, London]. Jones sole dual “threepeater.”)


1:05.85 Jones New South Wales Open Championships Sydney 02-12-10 (Splits: 31.18, 1:05.85 [34.67]) 1:05.85 Soni UltraSwim Invitational Grand Prix Charlotte 05-13-12 (Splits: 31.07, 1:05.85 [34.78]) 1:05.86 Sarah Katsoulis, AUS World Championships Rome 07-18-09 (Splits: 30.91, 1:05.986 [23.95]) 1:05.89p Soni Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-19-10 (Splits: 31.48, 1:05.89 [34.41]) 1:05.89 Soni Missouri Grand Prix Columbia 02-21-11 (Splits 32.19, 1:05.79 [33.60], (Note: third-fastest all-time prior to March 1st Only Leisel Jones’ 1:05.81/1:05.85 from earlier in February in prior years are quicker.) 1:05.90 Soni UltraSwim Invitational Grand Prix Charlotte 05-14-10 (Splits: 30.98, 1:05.90 [34.92]) 1:05.90s Hardy UltraSwim Invitational Charlotte 05-13-11 (Splits: 31.02, 1:05.90 [34.88]) 1:05.92 Breeja Larson, USA/Texas A&M U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-27-12 (Splits: 31.04, 1:05.92 [34.88]. (Note: U.S. Open/American/NCAA Division 1 record-setter/gold-medalist, 100 yard breaststroke [2K12]. Broke Record @ 2K13 SECs and wwon NCAAs month later in Championships-record time [second-fastest ever]. (Note: first U.S. Aggie female Olympian. Former Aggies Julia Wilkinson [CAN] and Alia Atkinson [JAM], both NCAA Division 1 gold medalists [100 free/200 breast], also swam @ London.) Remaining Top 50 Performers 1:06.04sf Tarnee White, AUS AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-23-08 (Splits: 30.88, 1:06.04 [35.16]) 1:06.22p Megan Jendrick, USA Speedo/PNS Senior Championships Mt. Hood 07-24-09 (Splits: 30.36, 1:06.22 [35.86]. (Note: Olympic gold-medalist [Sydney, 2000]) 1:06.32* Satomi Suzuki, JPN 85th Japan University Championships Kunamoto 09-04-09 (Splits: 31.23, 1:06.80 [35.57]) 1:06.34 Tara Kirk, USA/Stanford World Championships Melbourne 03-26-07 (Splits: 30.86, 1:06.34 [35.50])

1:06.38* Rikke Moller-Pedersen, DEN World Championships Rome 07-18-09 (Splits: 31.23, 1:06.38 [35.15]) 1:06.52p* Penny Heyns, RSA/Nebraska Pan-Pac Championships Sydney 08-23-99 (Splits: 31.16, 1:06.52 [35.36])

1:06.53 Amanda Reason, CAN CAN Nationals/WCTs Montreal 07-09-09 (Splits: 30.84, 1:06.53 [35.69])

1:06.54 Jin Zhao, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-18-09 (Splits: 30.85, 1:06.54 [35.69]) 1:06.58p* Mirna Jukic, AUT World Championships Rome 07-27-09

(Splits: 31.51, 1:06.58 [35.07]) 1:06.64 Xuejuan Luo, CHN Olympics Athens 08-16-04

(Splits: 31.34, 1:06.64 [35.30]) 1:06.68p* Jennie Johansson, SWE AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 04-27-13 (Splits: 31.09, 1:06.68 [35.59])

1:06.71 Keri Hehn, USA/Minnesota U.S. Nationals/WCTs Indianapolis 07-08-09 (Splits: 31.39, 1:06.71 [35.32])

1:06.76 Sara Nicponski, USA/UCSB U.S. Nationals/WCTs Indianapolis 07-08-09 (Splits: 31.56, 1:06.76 [35.20]) 1:06.79so* Alia Atkinson, JAM/Texas A&M Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 31.56, 1:06.79 [35.23]) 1:06.80sf Rong Fan, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-17-09 (Splits: 32.05, 1:06.80 [34.75])

1:06.86* Ilaria Scarcella, ITA ITA Nationals/WCTs Pescara 05-28-09 (Splits: 31.94, 1:06.86 [34.92])

(Note: first – and ONLY – Italian under 1:07.0, fourth European.)


1:06.88 Leiston Pickett, AUS AUS Olympic Trials Adelaide 03-16-12 (Splits: 31.38, 1:06.88 [35.50])

1:07.01* Sarah Poewe, GER/Georgia World Championships Rome 07-28-09 (Splits: 31.30, 1:07.01 [35.71])

1:07.03 Jade Edmistone, AUS AUS Nats./Commonwealth Games Trials Melbourne 02-03-06 (Splits: 31.24, 1:07.03 [35.79]) 1:07.04 Samantha Marshall, AUS Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-19-10 (Splits 31.58, 1:07.04 [35.46]): 1:07.08 Ye Sun, CHN World Championships Shanghai 07-26-11 (Splits: 32.03, 1:07.08 [35.05])

1:07.10 Kanako Watanabe, JPN 5th Japan Open Tokyo 05-20-11 (Splits: 32.08, 1:07.10 [35.02]. (Note: national junior record. Old record: 1:07.99, Watanabe, JPN World Championship Trials, 04/11.)

1:07.15 Brooke Sinannson, AUS Olympics Athens 08-16-04 1:07.15 Chiara Boggiatto, ITA World University Games Belgrade 07-07-09 (Note: Games record. (Note: first major international gold. Brother Alessio won gold in 400 IM @ 2001 World Championships [Fukuoka]) 1:07.17 Nanaka Tamura, JPN 64th National Sports Festival Nagaoka 09-12-09 1:07.17 Mina Matsushita, JPN 85th Japan Univesity Championships Kunamoto 09-04-09 1:07.17 Jillian Tyler, CAN/Minnesota CAN Olympic Trials Montreal 03-29-12 (Note: 2K11 NCAA Division 1100 yard breaststroke gold-medalist.) 1:07.19 Ellyn Baumgardner, USA/Arizona U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-26-12 1:07.20p Staciana Stitts, USA/Cal U.S. Olympic Trials Long Beach 07-08-04 1:07.21sf1 Joline Hostman, SWE World Championships Rome 07-17-09 1:07.21sf1 Ashley Wanland, USA/Wisconsin U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-26-12 1:07.22 Dar’ya Deeva, RUS RUS Olympic Trials Moscow 04-19-12 1:07.25p Caroline Ruhnau, GER World Championships Rome 07-27-09 1:07.27 Masami Tanaka, JPN JPN Olympic Trials Tokyo 04-21-00 1:07.27 Emma Igelstroms, SWE SWE Nats./European Championship Trials Landskrona 07-07-02 1:07.27* Ganna Khlystunova, UKR World Championships Melbourne 03-27-07 1:07.28 Annie Chandler, USA/Arizona U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-27-12 200 METER BREASTSTROKE Top 50 Performances 2:19.59** Rebecca Soni, USA/USC Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 32.49, 1:08.10 [35.61], 1:43.95 [35.85], 2:19.59 [35.64]. (Note: first woman to defend title, first woman to break world-record @ same competition since South Africa’s Penny Heyns, Atlanta Olympics gold-medalist in 100-200 breast, broke standard twice @ 1999 Pan-Pacs in the Sydney Olympic Pool. Heyns swam 2:24.62 in the prelims [08/26] then topped that w/a 2:23.64 the following day. Those times in turn broke her wrs from a month earlier @ the Janet Evans Invitational in Los Angeles, where she had swum 2:24.69p/2:24.51. (Note: last American woman to break wr twice in same meet: Anita Nall @ the 1992 Olympic Trials [Indianapolis] where she went 2:25.92p/2:25.35. Record she broke was a 2:26.71 by GDR’s Silke Hoerner from Seoul Olympics. (Note: Soni has now broken wr thrice, tying Katie Ball for most by an American. Ball set her marks in late 1960s. Earlier that decade the USSR’s Galina Prozumeshikova broke the global-standard five times, still the most by anyone. But if Soni goes 2:18 @ next summer’sWCTs and then 2:15/2:10+ in Barcelona… (Note: USA now has four golds, most by any nation. Other American winners include: Sharon Wichman [1968, Mexico City]; Amanda Beard [2004, Athens] and now Soni @ Beijing [2008] and London. (Note: three other swimmers have broken wr @ an Olympics, GBR’s Anita Lonsborough [1960, Rome]; the USSR’s Marina Koshevaia [1976, Montreal] and the GDR’s Silke Horner [1988, Seoul]. (Note: from high above the McDonald’s Olympic Pool on the campus of USC, Tommy Trojan is smiling!)


2:20.00sf2# Soni Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 32.39, 1:07.82 [35.43], 1:43.83 [35.01], 2:20.00 [36.17]. (Note: second-consecutive Olympics where Soni has set world-record. Swam a wr 2:20.22 for gold @ Beijing [2K8]. Soni first to recapture wr after it was broken by someone else since Australia’s Leisel Jones, who swam a 2:22.96 in Brisbane in July of 2K4, shortly before Athens Olympics, then had standard broken two days later by USA’s Amanda Beard @ the OlympicTrials in Long Beach w/her 2:22.44. Jones then regained the wr w/her 2:21.72 @ following year’s World Championships in Montreal.) 2:20.12sf1*+ Annamay Pierse, CAN World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 32.03, 1:07.28 [35.25], 1:43.42 [36.14], 2:20.12 [36.70]. (Reaction Time: +0.82. (Note: first Canadian woman wr-setter since Alllison Higson swam 2:27.27 @ Olympic Trials [Montreal, 05/28/88]. (Note: first time record broken in qualifying since South Africa’s Penny Heyns swam a 2:24.42 in the prelims @ the 1999 Pan-Pac Championships in the Sydney Olympic Pool August 26, breaking her own global-standard of 2:24.51 from the finals of the Janet Evans Invitational in Los Angeles [Mcdonald’s Olympic Swim Stadium] a month earlier. That swim in turn broke Heyns’ world-record from the prelims of the Evans meet [2:24.76]. Heyns broke her prelim wr @ Sydney the following day in the finals [2:23.64], so in the space of about six week she shattered the world record four times.) 2:20.22 Soni Olympics Beijing 08-15-08 (Splits: 32.17, 1:07.46 [35.29], 1:43.70 [36.24], 2:20.22 [36.52]) (Note: second-consecutive American gold-medalist. Amanda Beard won @ Athens [2004]. (Note: first world/Olympic record, gold-medal for Soni and her coach, USC’s Dave Salo.

(Note: American/NCAA Divison 1 record-holder, 200 yard breaststroke; 2006- ’09 champion. She and Stanford’s Tara Kirk [2001-.04] only “four-peater.”

(Note: first Trojan woman to win an Olympic gold/set wr. Ex-Trojan Michelle Ford won gold in 800 meter freestyle @ Moscow Olympics [1980], but she did not begin competing for USC for antother year and-a-half

2:20.38 Soni U.S. Nationals/WCTs Indianapolis 07-11-09 (Splits: 31.78, 1:06.82 [35.04], 1:43.12 [36.32], 2:20.38 [37.25]. (Note: U.S. Open/Championships record. (Note: 100 split fastest all-time en route to 200.) 2:20.53*+ Rikke Meller-Pedersen Danish Open Bronshoj 03-29-13 (Splits: 32.49, 1:08.33 [35.84], 1:43.96 [35.66], 2:20.53 [36.57]. (Note: first European record of career.) 2:20.54* “Lethal” Leisel Jones, AUS AUS Nats./Commonwealth Games Trials Melbourne 02-01-06 (Splits: 32.09, 1:08.52 [36.43], 1:45.00 [36.48], 2:20.54 [35.54]. (Note: world record-holder, 200 meter breaststroke [scm], 2:15.42, World Cup, Berlin, 11-15-09)

2:20.58 Jones XXIX Ciutat de Barcelona/Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-10-08 (Splits: 32.85, 1:08.71 [35.86], 1:44.55 [35.84], 2:20.58 [36.03]. (Note: meet/Mare Nostrum/Spanish Open/”All Comers” records.)

2:20.69 Soni Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-21-10 (Splits: 32.36, 1:07.58 [35.22], 1:43.91 [36.83], 2:20.69 [36.78].

(Note: Championships record. (Note: Southern California Swimming [SCS] Open/”All Comers” records. Second-fastest all-time in U.S. pool. Soni’s 2:20.38 from last year’s U.S. Nationals/WCTs in Indianapolis No. 1 – but that swim was done wearing a now-illegal fullbody non-textile suit – so this swim was then fastest all-time textile.) 2:20.71 Pierse CAN Nationals/WCTs Montreal 07-10-09 (Splits: 32.31, 1:07.98 [35.67], 1:44.65 [36.67], 2:20.71 [36.06])

2:20.72 Jones Commonwealth Games Melbourne 03-18-06 (Splits: 32.29, 1:08.27 [35.98], 1:44.94 [36.67], 20.72 [35.78].

(Note: Games record.) 2:20.72a Rie Kanetou, JPN 85th Japan University Championships Kinaomto 09-06-09 (Splits: 33.11, 1:08.84 [35.73], 1:44.52 [35.68] 2:20.72 [36.30]. (Note: Championships record.)

2:20.72a Satomi Suzuki, JPN Olympics London 08-02-12 (Splits: 32.53, 1:08.64 [36.11], 1:44.67 [36.03], 2:20.72 [36.05] (Note: Olympic silver-medalist. Earlier won bronze in 100 breast.) 2:20.92 Suzuki Olympics London 08-02-12 (Splits: 32.53, 1:08.64 [36.11], 1:44.67 [36.03], 2:20.72 [36.05])


2:20.92* Yulia Efimova, RUS Olympics London 08-02-12 (Splits: 33.43, 1:09.61 [36.18], 1:45.43 [35.82], 2:20.92 [35.49]. (Note: first European record of career. (Note: Efimova, Soni and USA’s Jessica Hardy, world 50-100 breast record-holder, have trained together since the spring of 2K11 @ the Trojan Swim Club in Los Angeles under guidance of Coach Dave Salo All three medaled too w/Hardy striking gold in the 400 medley-free relays, Soni in 200 breast and Efimova the bronze.) 2:20.93sf2 Soni World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 32.25, 1:08.37 [36.62], 1:44.98 [36.61], 2:20.93 [35.95])

2:21.03sf2 Soni World Championships Shanghai 07-25-11 (Splits: 32.29, 1:07.76 [35.47], 1:43.91 [36.15], 2:21.03 [26.12]) 2:21.13 Soni U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-30-12 (Splits: 32.89, 1:08.38 [35.49], 1:44.91 [36.53], 2:21.13 [36.22]) (Note: Trials record, second-straight title. Won in 2K8 [2:22.60], then won gold @ Beijing [Olympics]) 2:21.34 Jones AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-17-08 (Splits: 31.98, 1:08.25 [36.27], 1:44.82 [36.57], 2:21.34 [36.52])

2:21.37* Hui Qi, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-22-09 (Splits: 32.71, 1:07.98 [35.27]) (Note: as a 16-year-old eight years earlier [2001] Qi set a then world-record [2:22.99] @ CHN Nationals/WCTs. Only world-record of her career.)

2:21.40p Soni Olympics London 08-01 (Splits: 32.87, 1:08.58 [35.71], 1:44.67 [36.09], 2:21.40 [36.76]. (Note: fastest-ever prelim time. Beats Australia’s Leisel Jones’ Olympic record from Beijing by .65!) 2:21.41 Soni XXXI Ciutat de Barcelona/Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-09-10 (Splits: 32.02, 1:07.85 [35.83], 1:44.75 [36.90], 2:21.41 [36.68])

2:21.45 Jones Japan 2007 International Invitational Chiba 08-23-07 (Splits: 32.90, 1:08.89 [35.99], 1:45.04 [36.15], 2:21.45 [36.41])

2:21.45sf2 Soni U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-29-12 (Splits: 32.82, 1:08.56 [35.74], 1:45.12 [36.56], 2:21.45 [36.33]) 2:21.46 Soni U.S. Nationals Atlanta 12-03-11 (Splits: 32.49, 1:07.86 [35.37], 1:44.40 [36.54\, 2:21.46 [37.06]. (Note: U.S. National Championships record.) 2:21.47 Soni World Championships Shanghai 07-29-11 (Splits: 32.19, 1:08.05 [35.86], 1:44.32 [36.27], 2:21.47 [37.15]. (Note: fastest winning time ever. (Note: first American to sweep 100-200 breaststroke races. Australia’s Leisel Jones [2005-‘07] only woman to sweep both twice. East Germany/’s Sinannnelore Anke [1973] and countrywoman Renate Vogel [‘75] plus Australia’s Samantha Riley [1994] other women to sweep. It’s unknown what kind of”tigers” Anke/Vogel had in their tanks. (Note: Soni won third gold swimming breaststroke leg on victorious USA 400 meter medley relay. (Note: as in her 100 breast win, Soni was fastest in heats, semis too. ( Note: second USA gold-medalist. Amanda Beard [2003, Barcelona] was first.) 2:21.60 Jones AUS Nats./World Chanpionship Trials Brisbane 12-08-06 (Splits: 32.03, 1:07.63 [35.60], 1:44.19 [37.56], 2:21.60 [37.51])

2:21.60 Soni U.S. Nationals/Pan-Pac, WCTs Irvine 08-07-10 (Splits: 32.26, 1:08.17 [35.91], 1:44.74 [36.57], 2:21.60 [26.86]. 2:21.62* Nadja Higl, SRB World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 32.72, 1:08.64 [35.92], 1:44.79 [36.15], 2:21.62 [36.83]. (Note: “Republika Srpbska’s” first – and ONLY – woman gold-medalist and first Serbian woman medalist, any event. (Note: 2008 pr/NR was 2:30.51 from Slovenian Championships that July. (Note: countryman Milorad [Michael\ Cavic became Serbia’s first male winner by taking No. 1 in 50 fly.) 2:21.65 Moller-Pedersen Olympics London 08-02-12 (Splits: 32.91, 1:09.26 [36.35], 1:45.19 [35.93], 2:21.65 [36.46]. (Note: third NR of event. Swam a @ 2:22.69 in prelims, 2:22.35 in semis.) 2:21.68p Pierse World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 3.48, 1:08.35 [35.87], 1:45.10 [36.75], 2:21.68 [36.58]. (Note: fastest-ever prelim time.)


2:21.72 Jones World Championships Montreal 07-29-05 (Splits: 32.38, 1:08.35 [35.97], 1:44.49 [36.14], 2:21.72 [37.23])

2 21.81 Jones XLVI RomAquaics/Sette Colli Invitational Rome 06-08-08 (Splits: 32.56, 1:09.19 [36.65], 1:45.93 [36.74], 2:21.81 [35.88])

2:21.84 Jones World Championships Melbourne 03-30-07 (Splits: 32.55, 1:09.80 [37.35], 1:45.27 [36.47], 2:21.84 [36.57])

2:21.84 Pierse World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 32.15, 1:07.67 [35.52], 1:44.66 [36.99], 2:221.84 [37.18]. (Note: Canada’s first medalist since Brett Sinanyden tied for gold in 100 meter freestyle [2007]. Canada’s first breaststroke medalist since Loren Van Oosten won a bronze in 100 [1998] and Canada’s first 200 breast medalist since Allison Higson won a bronze @ Madrid [1986])

2:21.97* Mirna Jukic, AUT World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 32.50, 1:08.21 [35.71], 1:45.06 [36.85], 2:21.97 [36.91])

2:21.99 Soni XXIII Arena Meeting de Canet/Mare Nostrum Canet 06-12-10 (Splits: 32.69, 1:08.77 [36.08], 1:45.91 [37.14], 2:21.99 [36.08]. (Note: meet/French Open’”All Comers” records.)

2:22.05 Jones Olympics Beijing 08-15-08 (Splits 31.84, 1:07.23 [35.39], 1:43.71 [36.48], 2:22.05 [38.34]) (Note: second-consecutive silver medal.) \

2:22.09p Soni World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits 32.55, 1:08.19 [35.64], 1:45.17 [36.98], 2:22.09 [36.92])

2:22.10p Jukic World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits 32.30, 1:08.26 [35.96], 1:45.13 [36.87], 2:22.10 [36.987]) 2:22.13sf2 Jukic World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 32.23, 1:08.39 [36.16], 1:45.13 [36.74], 2:22.13 [37.00])

2:22.15 Soni World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 31.41, 1:05.73 [34.31:42.20 [36.47], 2:22.15 [39.95]. (Note: 100 split fastest all-time en route to 200 breast clocking. In fact, time to 150 fastest all-time!)

2:22.17p Soni Olympics Beijing 08-13-08 (Splits: 32.74, 1:09.04 [36.30], 1:45.47 [36.543], 2:22.17 [36.70]. (Note: first Olympic/American lcm record of career and @ first Olympics!) 2:22.21 Soni UltraSwim Invitational Grand Prix Charlotte 05-15-10 (Splits: 31.88, 1:08.37 [36.49], 1:44.58 [36.21], 2:22.21 [37.64])

(Note: meet/North Carolina Swimming LSC records.) 2:22.22 Efimova World Championships Shanghai 07-29-11 (Splits: 32.25, 1:09.93 [36.68], 1:45.77 [35.84], 2:22.22 [36.45]. 2:22.22 Soni UltraSwim Invitational Grand Prix Charlotte 05-12-12 (Splits: 32.82, 1:08.25 [35.4], 1:44.81 [36.56], 2:22.22 [37.41]) 2:22.23sf1* Rikke Moller-Pedersen, DEN Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 32.86, 1:09.15 [36.29], 1:45.87 [36.72], 2:22.23 [36.36]. (Note: swam NR 2:22.69 in prelims.) 2:22.24sf1* Joline Hostman, SWE World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 32.25, 1:07.92 [35.67], 1:44.49 [36.57], 2:24.24 [37.75]

2:22.28sf1 Higl World Championshgips Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 32.62, 1:08.43 [35.81], 1:44.99 [36.56], 2:22.28 [37.29])

2:22.32 Kanetou World University Games Belgrade 07-09-09 (Splits: 33.85, 1:10.05 [36.20], 1:46.31 [36.26], 2:22.32 [36.01]. (Note: Games record.)

Remaining Top 50 Performers 2:22.44 Amanda Beard, USA/Arizona U.S. Olympic Trials Long Beach 07-12-04 (Splits: 33.25, 1:09.60 [36.35], 1:46.25 [36.65], 2:22.44 [36.19]. (Note: 2nd time in 353 days Beard tied and/or broke wr. First world record-setter for Arizona coach Frank Busch. Also, first U.S. woman to win World Championship/Olympic 200 breast golds in consecutive years. Hungary’s Agnes Kovacs is the only “tripler,” i.e., World Champion [1999, 2001] and Olympic champ [2000]. However, USA’s Rebecca Soni has a similar quadruple, i.e., 2K8-’12 Olympic champ, 2K-’11 World Champ.)


2:22.59 Ye Sun, CHN 5th East Asian Games Hong Kong 12-09-09 (Splits: 32.91, 1:09.21 [36.30], 1:46.15 [36.94], 2:22.59 [36.94]. (Note: Games record.) 2:22.82 Mina Matsushita, JPN 85th Japan Univerity Championships Kunamoto 09-06-09 (Splits: 32.49, 1:08.76 [35.27], 1:45.59 [36.83], 2:22.82 [37.23]) 2:22.83sf2 Nanaka Tamura, JPN World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 33.21, 1:09.47 [36.26], 1:45.53 [36.06], 2:22.83 [37.30]) 2:23.02* Sara Nordenstam, NOR/SMU Olympics Beijing 08-15-08 (Splits: 32.70, 1:09.19 [36.49], 1:46.00 [36.81], 2:23.02 [37.02]) (Note: with this swim, she became Norway’s first female European record-setter. Countryman Alexander Dale Oen is European 100 breast record-holder/Olympic silver-medalist.) 2:23.03 Micah Lawrence, USA/Auburn U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-30-12 (Splits: 32.40, 1:08.73 [36.33], 1:45.46 [36.73], 2:23.03 [37.57]) (Note: first Olympic berth.) 2:23.08 Martha McCabe, CAN CAN Nationals/WCTs Montreal 07-10-09 (Splits: 33.27, 1:09.79 [36.52], 1:46.29 [36.50], 2:23.08 [36.79]) 2:23.20sf1 Keri Hehn, USA/Minnesota World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 32.89, 1:09.49 [36.60], 1:46.31 [36.82], 2:23.20 [36.69]) (Note: although she’s a former Gopher All-America/grad, Hehn has been based in Southern California since Athens, training first @ Mission Viejo, then for last several years with USC coach Dave Salo in Los Angeles.) 2:23.21sf2* Suzaan van Biljon, RSA Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 32.67, 1:09.12 [36.45], 1:45.64 [36.62], 2:23.21 [37.47]. (Note: African record. Old record: 2:23.64, Penny Heyns, RSA, 1999 Pan-Pacs [08/99, Sydney]) 2:23.32sf2* Ilaria Scarcella, ITA World Championships Rome 07-30-09 (Splits: 32.71, 1:09.05 [36.34], 1:46.05 [37.00], 2:23.32 [37.27]. (Note: 16 years old. Turned 16 July 6. Youngest swimmer in field.) 2:23.50 Anastasia Chaun, RUS XXX European Chamionships Budapest 08-14-10 (Splits: 34.00, 1:10.29 [36.29], 1:47.00 [36.71], 22:23.50 [36.50\ 2:23.56 Kanako Watanabe, JPN JPN Olympic Trials` Tokyo 04-07-12

(Splits: 33.48, 1:10.46 [36.98], 1:47.14 [36.68], 2:23.56 [36.42]) 2:23.64 Penny Heyns, RSA/Nebraska Pan-Pac Championships Sydney 08-27-99 (Splits: 32.52, 1:09.16 [36.64], 1:46.02 [36.84], 2:23.64 [37.32])

2:23.83 Li Ping Ji, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-22-09 (Splits: 33.09, 1:08.38 [26.29], 1:45.23 [36.85], 2:23.83 [38.10]) 2:23.83 Fumiko Kawanabe, JPN JPN Olympic Trials Tokyo 04-07-12

(Splits: 32.85, 1:08.88 [36.03], 1:45.88 [37.00], 2:23.83 [37.95]) 2:23.85 Megumi Taneda, JPN 83rd Japan University Championships Tokyo 09-09-07 (Splits: 33.72, 1:09.78 [36.06], 1:46.66 [36.88], 2:23.85 [36.81])

2:23.94 Sally Foster, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 05-01-13 (Splits: 33.12, 1:09.22 [36.10], 1:46.20 [36.98], 2:23.94 [37.74]. (Note: career-best/gold-medalist @ age 28! From high above St. Petersburg Ol’ Ponce de Leon is smiling!) 2:24.03sf+* Agnes Kovacs, HUN/Arizona St. Olympics Sydney 09-20-00 (Splits: 33.31, 1:10.74 [37.38], 1:47.73 [36.99], 2:24.03 [36.30])

2:24.03 Tera Van Beilen, CAN CAN Olympic Trials Montreal 03-31-12 (Splits: 32.66, 1:09.50 [36.84], 1:46.63 [37.13], 2:24.03 [37.40])

2:24.04* Kirsty Balfour, SCO Commonwealth Games Melbourne 03-18-06 (Splits: 33.15, 1:09.55 [36.40], 1:46.36 [36.81], 2:24.04 [36.68])

2:24.12 Masami Tanaka, JPN JPN Olympic Trials Tokyo 04-24-00 (Splits: 33.31, 1:10.33 [37.02], 1:47.25 [36.89], 2:24.12 [36.87])

2:24.29 Ashley Wanland, USA/Wisconsin U.S. Open Federal Way 08-05-09 (Splits: 32.77, 1:09.43 [36.66], 1:46.76 [37.33], 2:24.29 [37.53]) 2:24.29 Jin Zhao, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-22-09

(Splits: 32.49, 1:09.28 [36.79], 1:46.67 [27.29], 2:24.29 [37.62]) 2:24.38 Sarah Katsoulis, AUS Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-21-10 (Splits: 33.28, 1:10.19 [36.91], 1:47.02 [36.83], 2:24.38 [37.36]) 2:24.41 Nan Luo, CHN CHN Nationals/Pan-Pac Trials Anshan 04-23-02 (Splits: 33.57, 1:10.53 [36.96], 1:48.23 [37.70], 2:24.41 [36.48])


2:24.47 Valentina Artyemeva, RUS RUS Nationals Moscow 04-30-09 (Splits: 32.74, 1:09.78 [37.04], 1:46.47 [36.69], 2:24.47 [38.00])

2:24.50 Xuejuan Luo, CHN 10th National Games Nanjing 10-15-05 (Splits: 33.21, 1:10.53 [37.32], 1:47.68 [37.15], 2:24.50 [36.82])

2:24.56 Kristy Kowal, USA/Georgia Olympics Sydney 09-21-00 (Splits: 33.12, 1:10.21 [37.09], 1:47.13 [37.03], 2:24.56 [37.43. 1:10.21/1:14.35])

2:24.61 Keiko Fukudome, JPN Junior Olympic Cup Tokyo 08-26-11 (Splits: 33.96, 1:10.60 [37.64], 1:47.74 [37.14], 2:24.61 [36.87]) 2:24.67* Seul-Ki Jung, KOR World University Games Bangkok 08-11-07

(Splits: 33.48, 1:10.50 [37.02], 1:47.75 [37.25], 2:24.67 [37.92]) 2:24.67sf1* Suyeon Back, KOR Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 33.50, 1:10.13 [36.63], 1:47.08 [36.95], 2:24.67 [37.59]) 2:24.70sf Olga Detenyuk, RUS 36th European Junior Championships Prague 07-09-09 (Splits: 1:10.69, 2:24.80 [1:14.01]) (Note: Championships record.): 2:24.76 Rebecca Brown, AUS AUS Nationals/CGTs-WCTs Brisbane 03-16-94 (Splits: 32.17. 1:08.68 [36.51], 1:46.18 [37.50], 2:24.76 [38.58])

2:24.79 Hitomi Nose, JPN JPN Nationals/WCTs Shizuoka 04-16-09 (Splits: 32.77, 1:09.01 [36.24], 1:46.71 [38.70], 2:24.79 [38.08])

2:24.80 Shi Jinglin, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-22-09 (Splits: 32.83, 1:09.00 [36.17], 1:47.16 [38.16], 2:24.80 [37.84])

2:24.81 Samantha Riley, AUS Pan-Pac Championships Atlanta 08-13-95 (Splits: 32.81, 1:09.52 [36.71], 1:46.40 [37.88], 2:24.81 [38.41])

2:24.82 Andrea Kropp, USA/Princeton U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-30-12 (Splits: 32.95, 1:09.33 [36.38], 1:46.50 [37.17], 2:24.82 [38.32]) 2:24.83* Marina Urzainqi Garcia, ESP XXXIII Cit. de Barcelona/Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-02-12 (Splits: 33.52, 1:10.34 [36.72], 1:47.76 [37.42], 2:24.83 [37.07])

2:24.90 Darae Jeong, KOR 5th East Asian Games Hong Kong 12-09-09 (Splits: 33.29, 1:10.27 [36.98], 1:47.12 [36.85], 2:24.90 [37.78])

50 METER BUTTERFLY Top 50 Performances 25.07sf2** Therese Alshammar, SWE World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Note: second world-record of career, both in 50 fly.) 25.28sf1*# Marlene Veldhuis, NED World Championships Rome 07-31-09 25.29* Jeannette Ottesen Gray, DEN Trofeu Maria Lenk/BRA Olympic Trials Rio de Janeiro 04-26-12

(Note: fastest all-time textile. (Note: South American Open/”All Comers” record.)

25.33 Veldhuis Amsterdam Swim Cup Amsterdam 04-19-09 (Note: eight races later in final event of meeting, Veldhuis set world-record in 50 free [23.96]. Second swimmer to hold both world records simultaneously! Countrywoman Inge de Bruijn set both in summer of Y2K but not in same meet.)

25.37 Alshammar 48th Herbalife/SettiColli International Invite. Rome 06-19-11 25.38 Alshammar/Nebraska XXIX EME Mtng. de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-12-11

(Note: meet/Mare Nostrum series records. Fasest all-time textile.) 25.44p Alshammar AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-17-09 25.44p Alshammar World Championships Rome 07-31-09 25.46 Alshammar XXVII Ciutat de Barcelona//Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-13-07

(Note: first world-record of career [lcm] and oldest woman wr-setter ever [30: born 08/77]) 25.48 Alshammar XXVII Meeting de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-14-09 25.48*+ Marieke Guehrer, AUS World Championships Rome 08-01-09

(Note: first international title, second Aussie winner. Counrywoman Dani Miaitke won in 2005 [26.11]) 25.49 Alshammar XXXI Ciutat de Barcelona/Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-10-10 25.50s* Dara Torres, USA/Florida U.S. Nationals/WCTs Indianapolis 07-08-09 (Note: @ age 42 [birthdate: 04/15/67] oldest U.S.record-setter all-time for either sex! (Note: 40-44 age-group “world record” [unofficial]. Fastest all-time by Masters-age swimmer.)


25.50sf2 Alshammar XXX European Championships Budapest 08-09-10 (Note: Championships record.) 25.52sf2 Alshammar World Championships Shanghai 07-29-11 25.53p Veldhuis 3rd Paris Open Paris 06-19-09 25.53sf2* Ingvild Snildal, NOR World Champoionships Rome 07-31-09 25.57 Anna-Karin Kammerling, SWEXXVI European Championships Berlin 07-30-02 25.57 Alshammar Arena Meeting de Canet/Mare Nostrum Canet 06-11-09 25.57a Yafei Zhou, CHN World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Note: first Asian medalist [silver]) 25.57 Inge Dekker, NED FRA Natuonals/WCTs Strasbourg 03-27-11 25.58p Veldhuis World Championships Rome 07-31-09 25.58sf2 Guehrer World Championships Rome 07-30-09 25.58 Snildal World Championships Rome 08-01-09

25.58 Alshammar XXX EME Mtng.de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-10-12 25.59 Alshammar SWE Nationals/WCTs Stockholm 07-07-09 25.59sf1 Zbou World Championships Rome 07-30-09

25.59 Alshammar World Championships Rome 08-01-09 (Note: only swimmer to final all five times event has been swum [2001, ’03, ’05, ’07, ’09.] Won in 2K7 @ Melbourne [25.91].) 25.60 Alshammar 1st Paris Open Paris 08-32-07 25.60 Guehrer AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-18-09 25.60 Alshammar New South Wales Open Championships Sydney 02-14-10 25.62p Veldhuis 12th International Meeting du Lyon Lyon 02-13-09 25.62p Snildal World Championships Rome 07-31-09 25.63 Veldhuis World Championships Rome 08-01-09

25.63 Alshammar XXX European Championships Budapest 08-10-10 (Note: second gold. Also won in 2006.) 25.64p Inge de Bruijn, NED Speedo Super 2000 Grand Prix Sheffield 05-28-00 25.64 Alshammar XXVIII Meeting de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-06-10 25.64 Sarah Sjostrom, SWE XXXI European Championships Debrecen 05-22-12

(Note: former world record-holder/2K9 World/2K10 European Championships gold-medalist, 100 meter butterfly.) 25.64 Dekker XXV EME Mtng. de Canet/Mare Nostrum Canet 06-07-12 25.66 Sjostrom World Championships Rome 08-01-09

25.66sf1 Sjostrom XXX European Championships Budapest 08-09-10 25.66 Alshammar Singapore Grand Prix Singapore 03-22-11 25.66 Alshammar 6th Open EDF de Natation Paris 07-07-12 25.67 Sjostrom Amsterdam Swim Cup Amsterdam 03-13-11

25.68p Alshammar World Championships Shanghai 07-29-11 25.68p Ottesen Gray Trofeu Maria Lenk/BRA Olympic Trials Rio de Janeiro 04-26-12 25.69 Otttesen XXX European Championships Budapest 08-10-10

25.69 Alshammar XXVIII Arena Mtng. de Canet/Mare Nostrum Canet 06-09-11 25.69* Ottesen 48th Herbalife/SettiColli International Invite. Rome 06-19-11 25.70 Alshammar XXXI Arena Mtng. de Canet Mare Nostrum Canet 06-12-10 Remaining Top 50 Performers 25.74 Ranomi Kromowidjojo, NED Swimcup Eindhoven Eindhoven 04-07-11 25.78 Alicia Coutts, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 05-02-13 25.80 Dana Vollmer, USA/Cal UltraSwim Grand Prix Chatlotte 05-12-12

25.84p* Silvia Di Pietro, ITA World Championships Rome 07-31-09 25.85sf2*” Daynara Ferreira Paula, BRA World Championships Rome 07-31-09

25.86* Melanie Henique, FRA World Championships Shanghai 07-30-11 (Note: first French medalist [bronze]. Henique’s first national-record of career.) 25.87sf2 Diane Bui Duyet, FRA World Championships Rome 07-31-09 25.87sf1 Ying Lu, CHN World Championships Shanghai 07-29-11

25.91 Jiao Liuyang, CHN 5th East Asian Games Hong Kong 12-08-09 (Note: Games record.)

25.92 Yolane Kukla, AUS AUS Nationals/Commonwealth Games Trials Sydney 03-17-10 (Note: first national title. Fourteen years old!)


25.92* Trin Aljand, EST/Texas A&M XXXI European Championships Debrecen 05-22-12 25.93s Christine Magnuson, USA/TN. U.S. Nationals/WCTs Indianapolis 07-08-09 25.94sf1 Hinkelien Schreuder, NED World Championships Rome 07-31-09 25.95* Yuka Katou, JPN 6th Japan Open Tokyo 05-25-12

25.97* Svetlana Khakhlova, BLR World University Games Belgrade 07-06-09 (Note: Games record.) 26.00 Jenny Thompson, USA/Stanford World Championships Barcelona 07-26-03 26.02 Libby Trickett, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-17-09 26.02sf1 Gabriella Silva, BRA World Championships Rome 07-31-09 26.03 Chantal Groot, NED XXIX European Championships Eindhoven 03-19-08 26.05 Dani Miatke, AUS World Championships Melbourne 03-31-07 26.05 Aliksandra Herasimenia, BLR ESP Open Championships Nalaga 03-31-12

26.08 Emily Seebohm, AUS Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-18-10 26.10* Li Jan Tao, SIN/Drury 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 11-18-10 (Note: Games-record/gold-medalist. Tao’s/Singapore’s first major international title.)

26.18* Kimberly Buys, BEL Flander’s Cup Antwerp 01-15-12 26.20 Anna-Karin Kammerling, SWE XLVI RomAquatica/Sette Colli Invitational Rome 06-08-08 26.21 Jessicah Schipper, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-18-09 26.23 Ting Lu, CHN CHN Nauonals/WCTs Wuhan 04-03-11 26.24 Felicity Galvez, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-17-09

26.24* Francesca Halsall, ENG Commonwealth Games New Delhi 10-04-10 (Note: gold-medalist.) 26.29 Petria Thomas, AUS AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 04-02-04 26.30* Sophie Batchelor, NZL NZL Nationals/WCTs Auckland 03-21-13 26.31* Fabienne Nadarajah, AUT 20th International Stroek Meeting-Austria Vienna 04-25-09

26.33sf1* Daniela Samulski, GER World Championships Rome 07-31-09 26.33* Svetlana Chimrova, RUS RUS Nationals/WCTs Kazan 04-17-13 26.35 Antje Buschschulte, GER GER Nationals/WCTs Sinannnover 11-24-06

26.35* Normi Thomas, CAN CAN Nationals/WCTs Victoria 04-03-13 26.36* Amit Ivry, ISR ISR Nationals Natania 07-27-08 26.36sf* Anna Dowgiert, POL XXXl European Championships Debrecen 05-21-12

26.36s Claire Donahue, USA/West Ky. Olympics London 07-29-12 100 METER BUTTERFLY Top 50 Performances 55.98** Dana Vollmer, USA/Cal Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 26.39, 55.98 [29.59].

(Note: first American gold-medalist since Madame Butterfly Mary T.Meagher won in Los Angeles [1984], Vollmer’s first Olympic gold. Mary T., incidentally, swam for Cal too. (Note: first time record broken by an American since Jenny Thompson swam 57.88 @ the 1999 Pan-Pacs in the Sydney Olympic Pool that August. Her time broke T.’s long-standing 57.93 wr that she swam @ the ’81 U.S. Nationals in Brown Deer, WI., the first and only time meet held in that venue!

(Note: 2007 NCAA Division 1 100 yard butterfly gold-medalist; 2009 champion, 100-200 yard freestyles. (Note: first wr of Vollmer’s career, second Cal woman wr-setter. Natalie Coughlin [100 back] first.)

56.06+*# Sarah Sjostrom, SWE World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 26.94, 56.06 [2912]. (Note: first Swedish woman gold-medalist, world record-setter. Still 15 years old. Turned 16 on August 17. (Note: world junior record, eclipsing USA’s Mary T. Meagher’s 57.93 from 1981.) 56.07a Liu Zige, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-18-09 (Splits: 26.69, 56.07 [29.38]) 56.23*+ Jessicah Schipper, AUS World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 26.47, 56.23 [29.86]) 56.25p Vollmer Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 26.28, 56.25 [29.97] 56.36sf2 Vollmer Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 26.08, 56.36 [30.28])


56.42sf2 Vollmer U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-25-12 (Splits: 26.42, 56.42 [30.00]. (Note: Trials record.) 56.44sf2 Sjostrom World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 27.12, 56.44 [29.27]. (Note: first Swedish female world record-setter.) 56.47sf2 Vollmer World Championships Shanghai 07-24-11 (Splits: 26.85, 56.94 [30.09]. (Note: second-consecutive World Championships Vollmer has broken American record. Did it in finals @ Rome [56.94, 2K9]. First U.S. gold-medalist since Jenny Thompson won in 2K3 @ Barcelona [57.93].) 56.50 Vollmer U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-26-12 (Splits: 26.31, 56.50 [30.19]) 56.59p Vollmer U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-25-12 (Splits: 26.44, 56.59 [30.15]. 56.61* Inge deBruijn, NED Olympics Sydney 09-17-00

(Splits: 26.67, 56.61 [29.94]. (Note: time was a then world-record and lasted eight years, 10 months, 53 days.) 56.64 de Bruijn/Tualatin Hills SC Speedo Western Zone Championships Federal Way 07-22-00

(Splits: 26.37, 56.64 [30.27]. (Note: U.S. Swimming/P’Northwest Swimming [PNS]/Weyerhauser Aquatic Center Open /”All Comers” records. (Note: 50 split [26.37] second-fastest all-time en route to 100 fly clocking.)

56.69 de Bruijn Speedo Super Grand Prix 2000 Sheffield 05-27-00 (Splits: 26.57, 56.69 [30.12])

56.69 Marleen Veldhuis, NED Amsterdam Swim Cup Amsterdam 04-17-09 (Splits: 26.82, 56.69 [29.87])

56.73 Libby Trickett, AUS Olympics Beijing 08-11-08 (Splits: 26.41, 56.73 [303.2].

(Note: gold-medalist.) 56.76p Sjostrom World Championships Rome 07-26-09

(Splits: 27.05, 56.76 [29.71]) 56.79 Sjostrom GBR Olympic Trials London 03-03-12

(Splits: 26.41, 56.79 [30.38]) 56.81 Trickett AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-23-08

(Splits: 26.45, 56.81 [30.36]) 56.85sf2 Alicia Coutts, AUS Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 26.75 56.85 [30.10])

56.86 Jiao Liuyang, CHN World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 26.57, 56.86 [30.29])

56.87 Vollmer World Chanpionships Shanghai 07-25-11 (Splits: 26.61. 56.87 [30.26]. (Note: Vollmer’s first World Championship gold, second Cal woman gold-medalist. Mary T. Meagher won in 1982 [Guayaquil]. (Note: fifth American champion, most by any nation. (Note: fourth Cal woman gold-medalist, all events. Natalie Coughlin has won 100 back twice [2001, ‘07], Mary T. Meagher in 100 fly [1982] and Sinanley Cope has won 50 back [2K1]) 56.87 Ying Lu, CHN Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 26.50, 56.87 [30.27])

56.89* Aurore Mongel, FRA World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 27.18, 56.89 [29.71])

56.90 Schipper AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-20-09 (Splits: 26.55, 56.90 [30.35])

56.94*’ Gabriella Silva, BRA World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 26.41, 56.94 [30.54]) (Note: first Brazilian finalist, either sex.)


56.94 Vollmer World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 26.85, 56.94 [30.09]. (Note: 2009 NCAA Division 1 gold-medalist, 100-200 yard freestyles on Golden Bears’ Championship title-team. Vollmer also won 2007 NCAA 100 fly title. (Note: first American lcm record.) 56.94 Coutts World Chanpionships Shanghai 07-25-11 (Splits: 26.61. 56.94 [30.33]) 56.94 Coutts Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 26.90, 56.94 [30.04])

56.96* Ingvild Snildal, NOR World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 26.51, 56.96 [30.29]. (Note: seventh woman under 57.0 in same race. Uprecedented!) 56.97p Vollmer World Championships Shanghai 07-24-11 (Splits: 26.97, 56.97 [30.00]) 57.03 Vollmer XLV Santa Clara International Invitational Santa Clara 06-01-12 (Splits: 26.69, 57.03 [30.34]. (Note: meet record. Old record: 57.07, Vollmer, prelims.) 57.05sf1 Trickett Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 26.58, 57.05 [30.47]) 57.06 Lu World Championships Shanghai 07-25-11 (Splits: 26.96. 57.06 [30.08]) 57.07p Vollmer XLV Santa Clara International Invitational Santa Clara 06-01-12 (Splits: 26.86, 57.07 [30.21]) 57.08sf1 Christine Magnuson, USA/TN. Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 26.79, 57.08 [20.19]. (Note: 2008 NCAA Division 1 100 yard fly champ, Southeastern Conference record-holder.) 57.08sf2 Schipper World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 26.86, 57.08 [30.22]) 57.10 Magnuson Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 26.95, 57.10 [30.15]) 57.12 Liuyang 8th Asian Swimming Championships Foshan 11-25-09 (Splits: 26.88, 57.12 [30.24]. (Note: Championships record.) 57.14sf de Bruijn Olympics Sydney 09-16-00 (Splits: 26.69, 57.14 [30.45])

57.15 Schipper AUS Nats./Commonwealth Games Trials Melbourne 02-02-06 (Splits: 26.94, 57.15 [30.21])

57.15 Magnuson U.S. Nationals/WCTs Indianapolis 07-07-09 (Splits: 26.69, 57.15 [30.46])

57.15p Vollmer World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 26.77, 57.15 [30.48])

57.16 Lenton World Champiomnships Melbourne 03-26-07 (Splits: 26.58, 57.16 [30.58])

57.16 Liuyang CHN Nationals/WCTs Shaoxing 04-07-09 (Splits: 26.96, 57.16 [30.20])

57.17p Schipper World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 26.71, 57.17 [30.46])

57.17p Lu Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 26.65, 57.17 [30.52]) 57.17 Sjostrom Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 26.80, 57.17 [30.37])

57.18sf2 Lu World Championships Shanghai 07-24-11 (Splits: 27.16, 57.18 [31.02]) 57.18 Coutts AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 04-27-13 (Splits: 26.74, 57.18 [30.44])


Remaining Top 50 Performers 57.20* Martina Moravcova, SVK/SMU XXVI European Championships Berlin 08-02-02

(Splits: 26.76, 57.20 [30.44]. (Note: Championships record.) 57.25* Ellen Gandy, GBR GBR Olympic Trials London 03-04-12 (Splits: 26.68, 57.25 [30.57]) 57.25sf2* Jeanette Ottesen Gray, DEN Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 26.46, 57.25 [30.79]) 57.27* Ilaria Bianchi, ITA Olympics London 07-29-12 (Splits: 26.70, 57.27 [30.78])

57.34 Natalie Coughlin, USA/Cal World Championships Merlbourne 03-26-07 (Splits: 26.40, 57.34 [30.94]) (Note: Olympic gold-medalist, 100 meter backstroke [2004, Athens; 2008, Beijing])

57.34p Yafei Zhou, CHN World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 26.99, 57.34 [30.35])

57.36 Petrina Thomas, AUS AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-28-04 (Splits: 27.06, 57.36 [30.30])

57.40 Francesca Halsall, GBR XXX European Championships Budapest 08-13-10 (Splits: 26.53, 57.40 [30.87]) 57.41 Biying Deng, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-18-09 (Splits: 26.88, 57.41 [30.53]) 57.42sf2 Claire Donahue, USA/West. Ky. Olympics London 07-28-12

(Splits: 26.55, 57.42 [30.87]) 57.43 Jemma Lowe, GBR/Florida ASA GBR Summer Nationals Sheffield 06-14-11 (Splits: 27.14, 57.43 [30.29])

57.46 Elaine Breeden, USA/Stanford U.S. Nationals/WCTs Indianapolis 07-07-09 (Splits: 27.31, 57.46 [30.15]) 57.54sf1* Li Jan Tao, SIN Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 27.72, 57.54 [29.82]. (Note: first Singapore swimmer to set an Asian record [m/f]) 57.55sf2 Therese Alshammar, SWE/Neb. XXX European Championships Budapest 08-12-10 (Splits: 26.73, 57.55 [30.82]) 57.58p Dara Torres, USA/Florida U.S. Olympic Trials Indianapolis 08-09-00 (Splits: 26.50, 57.58 [31.08].

(Note: 33 years young! 30-34 “world-record”. Born: 1967) 57.59sf Jenny Thompson, USA/Stanford U.S. Olympic Trials Indianpolis 08-09-00 (Splits: 26.86, 57.59 [30.73])

57.60 Rachel Komisarz, USA/Kentucky U.S. Open Atlanta 12-02-07 (Splits: 27.79, 57.60 [29.81])

57.60 Felicity Galvez, AUS XXIX Ciutat de Barcelona/Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-10-08 (Splits: 26.94, 57.60 [30.66]) (Note: Spanish Open/”All Comers” records)

57.62p Inge Dekker, NED Amsterdam Swim Cup Amsterdam 03-11-11 (Splits: 26.72, 57.62 [30.90]) 57.67 Stephanie Rice, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-20-09 (Splits: 27.13, 57.67 [30.54]) (Note: Olympic gold-medalist, 200-400 meter Individual Medleys [2008, Beijing]) 57.68sf1 Daynara Ferreira Paula, BRA World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 26.62, 57.68 [31.06]) 57.77 Mary DeScenza, USA/Georgia U.S. Nationals/WCTs Indianapolis 07-07-09 (Splits: 27.62, 57.77 [30.15]) (Note: fourth time two women from same nation under 58.0 in same race. Unprecedented!) 57.77* Yuka Katou, JPN JPN Olympic Trials Tokyo 04-03-12

(Splits: 26.68, 57.77 [31.09]) 57.80* Katerine Savard, CAN Canada Cup Etobicoke 11-27-11 (Splits: 27.06, 57.80 [30.74])


57.84p* Otylia Jedrejczak, POL Olympics Athens 08-14-04 (Splits: 27.28, 57.84 [30.56])

57.88 Fan Guo, CHN 5th East Asian Games Hong Kong 12-08-09 (Splits: 26.99, 57.88 [30.89]) 57.90sf2* Annika Mehlhorn, GER World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 27.18, 57.90 [30.72]) 57.93 Mary T. Meagher, USA/Cal U.S. Nationals Brown Deer 08-16-81 (Splits: 27.75, 57.93 [30.18])

(Note: 15-16 NAG record. Second-performer all-tme world junior. (Note: World Champion [1982, Guayaquil]. (Note: Olympic gold-medalist [1984, Los Angeles]) 57.94 Yanwei Xu, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Shaoxing 04-07-09

(Splits: 27.34, 57.94 [30.60]) 57.97 Micah Ostergaard, DEN DEN Nationals/WCTs Edjsberg 04-10-09 (Splits: 27.07, 57.97 [30.90])

58.02 Brittany Elmslie, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 04-27-13 58.07 Martina Granstroe, SWE XXXI European Championships Debrecen 05-25-12

58.08 Marieke Guehrer, AUS AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-20-09 58.09* Aliaksandra Herasimenia, BLR Spanish Open Championships Malaga 03-30-12 58.10 Rongrong Zheng, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-18-09 58.15 Kathleen Hersey, USA/Texas U.S. Nationals/Pan-Pac, WCTs Irvine 08-03-10 200 METER BUTTERFLY Top 50 Performances 2:01.81** Liu Zige, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-22-09 (Splits: 27.19, 58.08 [30.89], 1:30.20 [32.12], 2:01.81 [31.61].

(Note: 100 split fastest all-time en routé to 200 fly clocking.(Note: first Asian woman to break world-record twice, first woman to break world-record twice in consecutive

years since American Mary T. Meagher did it @ U.S. “Olympic Ttrials,” Irvine, CA., July 19 80 [2:06.37], then again following summer @ U.S. Nationals in Brown Deer, WI. [2:05.96, 08-13-81]. (Note: second-shortest time span to have world-record broken by two different swimmers. America’s Karen Moe broke the wr of 2:21.0 by The Netherlands’ Ada Kok in 1967 with her 2:20.7 @ the Santa Clara Invitatiional on July 11, 1970. Countrywoman Alice Jones then became first woman to crack 2:20.0 with her wr 2:19.3 from the AAU Championships in Los Angeles [1932 Olympic Pool] on August 22, 1970. (Note: American Tracy Caulkins tied the “German ‘Democratic’ Republic’s” Andrea Pollack’s then wr of 2:09.87 – set @ the GDR Nationals/WCTs in East Berlin on July 4, 1978 -- by winning the gold @ the World Championships in West Berlin seven weeks later [August 26], touching in the exact same time of 2:09.87. )

2:03.41*+# Jessicah Schipper, AUS World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 28.21, 1:00.25 [32.04], 1:32.23 [31.98], 2:03.41 [31.18]. (Reaction Time: +0.69. (Note: Schipper’s second world-record. Swam 2:05.40 @ 2006 Pan-Pac Championships in Victoria for her initial global standard. (Note: Schipper’s second-consecutive title. Ties her with GDR’s Rosemary Kother [1973, ‘75], Poland’s Otilya Jedrzejczek [2003, ‘05] for most golds. (Note: fifth time record has been broken @ a World Championships. Kother did it twice @ inaugural World Championships in Belgrade [1973; 2:15.45p, 2:13.76], Caulkins @ the Worlds in West Berlin [2:09.87, 1978] , Jedrzejczek [Montreal, 2005. 2:05.61] + Schipper here. Kothar, however, had a few extra “tigers” in her tank!) 2:03.90. Zige World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 27.44, 59.21 [31.77], 1:31.58 [32.37], 2:03.90 [32.31]) (Note: first time two swimmer under existing world-record in same race.)

2:04.06+ Jiao Liuyang, CHN Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 28.49, 1:00.62 [32.13], 1:32.75 [32.13], 2:04.06 [31.31]. (Note: silver-medalist @ Beijing [2K8] so her first Olympic gold.)


2:04.14p* Mary DeScenza, USA/Georgia World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Splits: 28.79, 1:00.57 [31.78] ,1:32.49 [1.92], 2:04.14 [31.65]. (Note: first world-record of career. First ‘Dawg world record-setter [either sex]. First U.S. woman to break wr since Mary T. Meagher swam a 2:05.96 @ U.S. Nationals in Brown Deer, Wisc. August 13, 1981 to break her own record of 2:06.37 from previous summer’s U.S. “Olympic Trials” in Irvine, CA. that July. (Note: four-time NCAA 200 yard fly champ for ‘Dawgs [2003-‘06]. Second woman to accomplish this feat. And only swimmer to do so in consecutive years. Former Cal Golden Bear Meagher, Olympic 100-200 fly gold-medalist @ Los Angeles [1984], won NCAA 200 fly titles in 1983, ’85-’87. She sat out ’83-’84 season to train fot Olympics. (Note: Stanford’s Pablo Morales [1984-‘87] only male 200 fly “four-peater,” Mark Sptiz won twice [’71-’72.) 2:04.18 Zige Olympics Beijing 08-14-08 (Splits: 27.80, 59.37 [31.57], 1:31.59 [32.22], 2:04.18 [32.59]) (Note: first Asian 200 butterfly world record-setter for either sex. (Note: 100 split en route to 200 = third-fastest all-time and that had been her pr until late October of 2009 when she clocked a 56.07 @ the National Games for an Asian record and second-fastest all-time.

(Note: first woman to break world-record @ an Olympics since USA’s Karen Moe [2:15.37, Munich, 1972]. (Note: third Chinese world record-setter @ an Olympics. In 1992 [Barcelona], Wenyi Yang and Li Lin set global standards in 50 free [24.79] and 200 IM [2:11.65], coincidentally on same day [07/31]).

2:04.27sf2+* Katinka Hosszu, HUN/USC World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Splits: 28.71, 1:00.71 [32.00], 1:33.78 [32.07], 2:04.2731.49]. (Note: first European record of career. (Note: 2K11-’12 NCAA Division 1 gold-medalist, 200 yard butterfly.) 2:04.28 Hosszu World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 28.62, 1:00.96 [32.34], 1:32.77 [31.81], 2:04.28 [31.51]. (Note: first international medal [bronze] of career. Second Hungarian medalist. Counrywoman Eva Risztov won silver @ Barcelona [2003]) 2:04.33sf2 DeScenza World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Splits: 28.76, 1:00.39 [31.63], 1:33.38 [32.99], 2:04.33 [30.95]) 2:04.40 Zige CHN Nationals/WCTs Wuhan 04-06-11 (Splits: 28.49/1:32.68. (Note: fastest all-time textile.) 2:04.41 DeScenza World Championships Rome 07-31-09

(Splits: 28.58, 1:00.91 [31.63], 1:43.48 [31.99], 2:04.41 [32.13]) 2:04.44 Liuyang CHN Nationals/WCTs Wuhan 04-06-11 (Splits: 28.36/1:32.48) 2:04.50 Liuyang World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 28.13, 1:00.05 [31.92] 1:32.50 [32.45], 2:04.50 [32.00]), 2:04.65 Zige 5th East Asian Games Hong Kong 12-06-09 (Splits: 27.70, 59.54 [31.74], 1:31.55 [32.01], 2:04.65 [33.10]. (Note: Games record.) 2:04.69* Natsumi Hoshi, JPN JPN Olympic Trials Tokyo 04-05-12 (Splits: 28.66, 1:00.65 [31.99], 1:32.70 [32.05], 2:04.69 [33.09]) 2:04.72 Liuyang Olympics Beijing 08-14-08 (Splits: 28.19, 1:00.36 [32.17], 1:32.68 [32.32], 2:04.72 [32.04]) 2:04.83* Ellen Gandy, GBR GBR Nationals/WCTs Sheffield 03-19-09

(Splits: 28.83, 1:00.03 [31.20], 1:31.99 [31.96], 2:04.83 [32.84]. (Note: first Brtish woman to hold either Commonwealth and/or European record, let alone both simultaneously!)

2:04.87sf1 Schipper World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Splits: 28.12, 1:00.15 [32.03], 1:32.61 [32.46], 2:-04.87 [32.26]) 2:04.96sf1 Liuyang World Championships Rome 07-29-09

(Splits: 27.81, 59.54 [31.73], 1:32.31 [32.77], 2:-04.96 [32.65]) 2:05.09sf1* Aurore Mongel, FRA World Championships Rome 07-29-09

(Splits: 28.09, 1:00.01 [31.92], 1:32.59 [32.58], 2:05.09 [32.50]) 2:05.18 Liuyang CHN Olympic Trials Shaoxing 04-06-12

(Splits: 28.06, 59.98 [31.92], 1:32.57 [32.59], 2:05.18 [31.61]) 2:05.22 Liuyang CHN Nationals/WCTs Shaoxing 04-09-09 (Splits: 26.57, 1:00.72 [34.15], 1:33.05 [33.33], 2:05.22 [32.17])


2:05.25* Mireia Belmonte Garcia, ESP Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 28.32, 59.75 [31.43], 1:31.91 [32.16], 2:05.25 [33.34].

(Note: first Olympic medal [silver], only Spanish medalist of Games [m/w]) 2:05.29sf1 Zige World Championships Rome 07-29-09

(Splits: 27.81, 58.78 [30.97], 1:32.49 [32.71], 2:-05.29 [33.80]) 2:05.36 Jemma Lowe, GBR/Florida GBR/ASA Championships Sheffield 06-17-11

(Splits: 28.53, 1:00.34 [31.81], 1:32.40 [32.71], 2:-05.36 [32.96]) 2:05.38 Gong Jie, CHN CHN Olympic Trials Shaoxing 04-06-12

(Splits: 28.47, 1:00.58 [32.11], 1:33.27 [32.69], 2:05.38 [32.11]) 2:05.40 Schipper Pan-Pac Championships Victoria 08-17-06 (Splits: 28.35, 1:00.11 [31.76], 1:32.46 [32.35], 2:05.40 [32.94]. Initial 100 second-fastest ever. (Note: American Michael Phelps lowered his own men’s world 200 butterfly record immediately afterwards!) 2:05.46 Liuyang CHN Nats./Pan-Pac-Asian Games TrialsShaoxing 04-22-10 (Splits: 28.03, 59.77 [31.74], 1:32.56 [32.79], 2:05.46 [33.00]) 2:05.48 Mongel World Championships Rome 07-31-09 (Splits: 27.89, 59.83 [31.94], 1:32.52 [32.69], 2:05.48 [32.96]) 2:05.48 Hoshi Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 28.61, 1:00.66 [32.05], 1:32.98 [32.32], 2:05.48 [32.50]. (Note: first medal of career [bronze])

2:05.50p Schipper World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Splits: 27.35, 58.51 [31.16], 1:31.58 [33.07], 2:05.50 [33.92]( (Note: 100 split second-fastest all-time en route to 200 clocking.) 2:05.55 Liuyang World Championships Shanghai 07-28-11 (Splits: 27.59, 5928 [31.69], 1:32.15 [32.87],2:05.55 [33.40]. (Note: Liuyang’s first World Championship gold, China’s second. Limin Liu, who swam for Nevada-Reno in the late 1990s.won @ Rome 17 years ago in 2:07.25.) 2:05.57 Liuyang 11th National Games Jinan 10-22-09 (Splits: 27.85, 59.44 [31.59], 1:32.55 [33.11], 2:05.57 [33.02]]) 2:05.59 Gandy World Championships Shanghai 07-28-11 (Splits: 28.67, 1:00.54 [31.87], 1:32.73 [32.19],2:05.59 [32.86]. (Note: first British World Championships medalist [silver]) 2:05.61* Otylia Jedrzejczak, POL World Championships Montreal 07-28-05 (Splits: 28.90, 1:00.54 [31.87], 1:32.73 [32.19], 2:05.59 [32.54]) (Note: win gives her “Grand Slam”: 2002, ’04, ‘06 European Championships, ’03, ’05 Worlds, ’04 Olympics And ’05 World University Games.)

2:05.61 Liuyang CHN Nationals/Asian Games Trials Rizhao 08-31-10 (Splits: 28.71, 1:00.15 [31.44], 1:33 18 [33.03], 2:05.61 [32.28]) 2:05.65 Schipper World Championships Montreal 07-28-05 (Splits: 28.24, 1:00.61 [32.27], 1:32.91 [32.30], 2:05.65 [32.74])

2:05.78 Jedrzejczak XXVI European Championships Berlin 08-04-02 (Splits: 28.79, 1:00.79 [32.00], 1:33.14 [32.35], 2:05.78 [32.62]) (Note: first world-record by Polish woman swimmer.)

2:05.78 Kathleen Hersey, USA/Texas Olympics London 08-01-12 (Splits: 28.62, 1:00.26 [31.64], 1:32.96 [32.70], 2:05.78 [32.82])

2:05.79 Liuyang 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 11-14-10 (Splits: 27.91, 1:00.04 [32.13], 1:33.07 [33.03], 2:05.79 [43.72]. (Note: Games record.) 2:05.81 Susie O’Neill, AUS AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 05-17-00 (Splits: 28.57, 1:00.24 [31.77], 1:32.71 [32.47], 2:05.81 [32.10])

2:05.87 Liuyang CHN Nationals/WCTs Zhengzhou 04-05-13 (Splits: 28.53, 1:00.29 [31.79], 1:32.68 [32.44], 2:05.87 [33.19]) 2:05.88 Misty Hyman, USA/Stanford Olympics Sydney 09-20-00 (Splits: 28.38, 59.91 [31.53], 1:32.44 [32.53], 2:05.88 [33.44]. (Note: gold-medalist. Third American winner.)

2:05.90 Gandy New South Wales Open Championships Sydney 02-13-11 (Splits: 28.20, 1:00.02 [31.82], 1:32.29 [32.27], 2:05.90 [32.61]. (Note: Championships record.)


2:05.90 Zige World Championships Shanghai 07-28-11 (Splits: 27.83, 1:00.05 [32.22], 1:32.62 [32.57], 2:05.90 [33.28]) 2:05.90sf2 Hersey Olympics London 07-31-12 (Splits: 28.87, 1:00.49 [31.62], 1:33.01 [32.52], 2:05.90 [32.89]) 2:05.91 Hoshi World Championships Shanghai 07-28-11 (Splits: 28.86, 1:01.36 [32.50], 1:33.55 [32.19], 2:05.91 [33.26]) 2:05.92 Jedrezjczak 1st Paris Open Paris 08-02-07 (Splits: 29.23, 1:01.27 [31.04], 1:33.43 [32.16], 2:05.92 [32.52]) 2:05.93 Schipper AUS Nationals/WCTs Sydney 03-22-09 (Splits: 28.18, 1:00.13 [31.95], 1:32.80 [32.67], 2:05.93 [33.13]) 2:05.95* Audrey Lacroix, CAN World Championships Rome 07-31-09

(Splits: 28.68, 1:00.60 [31.92], 1:33.29 [32.69], 2:05.95 [32.66]) Remaining Top 50 Performers 2:05.96 Mary T. Meagher, USA U.S. Nationals Brown Deer 08-13-81

(Splits: 29.53, 1:01.41, 1:33.69, 2:05.96. (Note: U.S. Open/world junior/15-16 NAG records.. (Note: Olympic gold-medalist [1984, Los Angeles]. (Note: this swim broke “T.’s” wr of 2:06.37 from previous summer’s”Olympic Trials” @ Irvine and lasted as global-standard for just under next 19 years. Finally eclipsed by Australia’s Susie O’Neill’s 2:05.81 from Aussie OTs in Sydney Olympic Pool on 05-17-00.)

2:05.99sf1 Samantha Hamill, AUS World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Splits: 28.59, 1:00.63 [32.04], 1:33.79 [32.76], 2:-05.99 [32.60]) 2:06.01p Petrina Thomas, AUS AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-29-04

(Splits: 28.19, 1:00.20 [32.01], 1:32.91 [32.71], 2:06.01 [33.10]) 2:06.08 Stephanie Rice, AUS World Championships Shanghai 07-28-11 (Splits: 28.57, 1:01.11 [32.54], 1:34.21 [33.10], 2:06.08 [31.87]) 2:06.35 Zsuzsanna Jakabos, HUN/UNLV World Championships Shanghai 07-28-11 (Splits: 28.36, 1:00.54 [32.18], 1:33.16 [33.62], 2:06.35 [33.19]) 2:06.45p* Annika Mehlhorn, GER World Championships Rome 07-29-09 (Splits: 27.85, 59.96 [32.11], 1:32.74 [32.78], 2:06.45 [32.71]) 2:06.50* Caterina Giacchetti, ITA ITA Nationals/WCTs Pescara 05-26-09

(Splits: 29.18, 1:01.90 [32.72], 1:34.00 [32.10], 2:06.50 [32.50]) 2:06.52 Cammile Adams, USA/Texas A&M U.S.Olympic Trials Omaha 06-29-12 (Splits: 29.52, 1:01.30 [31.78], 1:33.70 [32.40], 2:06.52 [32.82]. (Note: Adams’ first Trials title, second Aggie to make Olympic team. Teammate Breeja Larson won 100 breast several days earlier to also make London squad. (Note: 2013 NCAA 200 yard butterfly gold-medalist, (Note: from high above the broiling, sun-parched plains of College Station, Da’ Bear’s a smilin’!)

2:06.62 Natsuki Akiyama, JPN 76th All-Japan High-School Chmps. Kawaguchi 08-18-08 (Splits: 29.29, 1:01.70 [32.41], 1:34.30 [32.60], 2:06.62 [31.92]) (Note: national high-school record.)

2:06.71 Kim Vandenberg, USA/UCLA World Championships Melbourmne 03-29-07 (Splits: 28.45, 1:00.77 [32.32], 1:33.44 [32.67], 2:06.71 [33.27]) (Note: first Bruin woman World Championship medalist [silver]. Shirley Babashoff briefly attended UCLA following Montreal Olympics but never swam for Bruins.) 2:06.71 Emese Kovacs, HUN XXIX European Championships Eindhoven 03-24-08 (Splits: 28.42, 1:00.66 [32.24], 1:33.59 [32.93], 2:06.71 [33.12])

2:06.73 Yui Miyamoto, JPN 64th National Sports Festival Nagaoka 09-12-09 (Splits: 28.28, 1:00.71 [32.43], 1:34.00 [33.29], 2:06.73 [32.73])

2:06.75 Elaine Breeden, USA/Stanford U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-03-08 (Splits: 28.40, 1:00.18 [31.78], 1:32.77 [32.59], 2:06.75 [33.98]) (Note: Trials record. (Note: American/NCAA Division 1 record-holder, 2009 gold-medalist, 200 yard butterfly.) 2:06.77 Limin Liu, CHN/Nevada-Reno 12th Asian Games Hiroshima 10-07-94 (Splits: 29.31, 1:01.84 [32.53], 1:34.67 [33.83], 2:06.77 [32.00]. (Note: Games record.)


2:06.93 Teresa Crippen, USA/Florida Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 07-18-10 (Splits: 28.65, 1:00.43 [31.78], 1:33.19 [32.76], 2:06.93 [33.74]) 2:07.05* Sara Isakovic, SLO/Cal XLVI RomAquaticsa/Sette Colli Invite. Rome 06-07-08 2:07.22 Biying Deng, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-22-09 2:07.42 Yun Qu, CHN World Championships Rome 09-11-94

2:07.44sf1*Micah Kathleen Jensen, DEN World Championships Rome 07-29-09 2:07.63sf Qian Zheng, CHN 11th National Gamres Jinan 10-21-09 2:07.66 Felicity Galvez, AUS XXVI Mtng. de Monaco/Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo 06-08-08 2:07.68 Eva Risztov, HUN World Championships Barcelona 07-24-03

2:07.68 Jessica Dickons, GBR NED Open Championships Eindhoven 12-02-11 2:07.69 Yurie Yano, JPN 84th Japan University Championships Tokyo 09-05-08 2:07.82* Cornelia Polit, GDR XVII European Championships Rome 08-27-83

2:07.83sf2* Martina Granstrom, SWE Olympics London 07-31-12 2:07.84 Rongrong Zheng, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Shaoxing 04-09-09

2:07.84sf1 Anja Klinar, SLO/SMU Olympics London 07-31-12 2:07.87 Judit Ignacio, ESP ESP Nationals/WCTs Madrid 03-31-11 2:07.89 Jiani Zhou, CHN CHN Natonals Rizhao 09-22-11 2:08.00 Franziska Hentke, GER GER Nationals/WCTs Berlin 06-27-09 2:08.03 Ines Geissler, GDR GDR Nationals Gera 06-18-83 2:08.06sf Wen Shi Ye, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-21-09 2:08.11 Mette Jacobsen, DEN/SMU Olympics Sydney 09-20-00 2:08.13 Maki Mita, JPN JPN Olympic Trials Tokyo 04-23-00

200 METER INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY Top 50 Performances 2:06.15** Ariana Kukors, USA/Washington World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 27.72, 59.24 [31.52], [1:36.31 [37.07], 2:06.15 [29.84]) (Note: Kukors third American [Claudia Kolb/Tracy Caulkins others] to break world-record more than once. Caulkins did it thrice, Kolb five times. Caulkins only other American to break wr @ a World Championships, swimming 2:14.07 @ West Berlin in 1978. That broke her own wr of 2:15.07 from the U.S. World Championship Trials several weeks earlier during the AAU Championships in The Woodlands, TX.. (Note: Kukors finished third @ U.S. Trials in Indianapolis and ostensibly was not going to ompete in Rome. However, runner-up Elizabeth Pelton decided to focus on other events, bumping Kukors up a notch. (Note: Kukors first woman under 2:08.0/2:07.0. (Note: Kukors’ first major international competition [Olympics/World Championships]. (Note: Kukors third former University of Washington swimmer to win a gold-medal. Butterflyer Robin Backhaus took top honors @ the inaugural World Championships in Belgrade 36 years ago and Husky teammate Rick DeMont – now an assistant coach at the University of Arizona – won gold in 400 free. DeMont’s winning time [3:58.18] was a then World-record and made hm first man under 4:00.0.) 2:07.03sf1# Kukors World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 27.94, 58.89 [31.95], 1:36.47 [36.58], 2:07.03 [30.56]. (Note: Kukors second Husky swimmer of either sex to set a world-record. DeMont [see above] first although former Husky Jack Medica set a pair of world records in mid-1930s in 200-400 frees but that was before FINA’s adoption of 50 meter pool size standard for lcm world records. (Note: First wr for ANY King Aquatics and/or King AC Sean Hartnett-coached swimmer [m/f]. (Note: Kukors’ King AC teammate Megan Jendrick, Sydney Olympics 100 meter breaststroke gold-medalist, set her first American record nine years and a day earlier when she broke the 50 meter breast standard @ a meet in her hometown of Seattle.) 2:07.03*+ Stephanie Rice, AUS World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 27.32, 59.27 [31.95], 1:36.70 [37.43], 2:07.03 [30.33]) 2:07.46+* Katinka Hosszu, HUN/USC World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 27.74, 1:00.08 [32.34], 1:37.54 [37.46], 2:07.46 [29.92]. (Note: broke own European record of 2:09.12 from prelims; also set European record in 200 fly.)


2:07.57+a Ye Shewin, CHN Olympics London 07-30-12 (Splits: 28.25, 1:00.83 [32.58], 1:38.25 [37.42], 2:07.57 [29.32]. (Reaction Time: 0.79. (Note: fastest all-time textile. (Note: Ye’s second gold. Ser world-record in 400 IM several days earlier and also won 200 IM @ 2K11 World Chanpionships [then world textile-best 2:08.90.] (Note: second Asian/Chinese gold-medalist. Countrywoman Lin Li won @ Barcelona [1992]) 2:08.15 Alicia Coutts, AUS Olympics London 07-30-12 (Splits: 28.12, 1:01.22 [33.10], 1:38.24 [37.02], 2:08.15 [29.91]. (Note: first Olympic medal [silver] for 2K10 Commonwealth Games champ./record-setter.) 2:08.32 Hui Qi, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-22-09 (Splits: 28.86, 1:02.07 [32.21], 1:38.77 [36.70], 2:08.32 [29.55]. (Note: second NR of meet. Swam 2:21.37 in 200 breast earlier in competition. First national and/or Asian IM record of career [age 24]. Old Asian record: 2:09.72 by countrywoman Yanyan Wu @ 8th National Games a dozen years ago [1997]. Wu, however, had a few extra” tigers” in her tank.) 2:08.39sf2 Shewin Olympics London 07-30-12 (Splits: 28.00, 1:00.42 [32.42], 1:37.80 [37.38], 2:08.39 [30.59]. 2:08.45 Rice Olympics Beijing 08-13-08 (Splits: 27.84, 1:00.68 [32.84], 1:38.36 [37.68], 2:08.45 [30.09]) (Note: set world-record in 400 IM en route to gold four days earlier. First woman to ever break both IM wrs @ same Olympics. Also first and ONLY woman to break both wrs twice in same year. Last woman to set global standards in both IMs in same competition: Americn Tracy Caulkins, 1978, World Championships, (Note: Rice became a treble gold-medalsit moments later when she led off Australia’s gold-medal-winning/ world record-setting 800 meter freestyle relay with a Commonwealth record-tying 1:56.60 split) 2:08.53p Kukors World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 28.13, 1:00.78 [32.65], 1:37.46 [36.68], 2:08.53 [31.07]) 2:08.59* Kirsty Coventry, ZIM/Auburn Olympics Beijing 08-13-08 (Splits: 28.47, 1:00.16 [31.69], 1:38.27 [38.11], 2:08.59 [303.2]. (Note: also finished under old world-record in 400 IM and got silver to Rice.) 2:08.63 Coutts AUS Nationals/WCTs Adelaide 04-27-13 (Splits: 27.52, 1:00.28 [32.76], 1:37.87 [37.69], 2:08.63 [30.76] (Note: Australian Open/”All Comers” record. Fastest all-time prior to late July, ANY year! (Note: second gold of day/meet. Won 100 fly I a then world-leading an hour earlier.). 2:08.68sf2 Rice World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 27.62, 1:00.42 [32.80], 1:37.59 [37.17], 2:08.68 [31.09]) 2:08.90 Shiwen World Chanpionships Shanghai 07-25-11 (Splits: 28.84, 1:01.77 [32.93], 1:39.48 [37.71], 2:08.90 [29.42]) 2:08.90p Shiwen Olympics London 07-30-12 (Splits: 28.16, 1:00.54 [32.38], 1:38.17 [37.63], 2:08.90 [30.75]. (Note: fastest-ever qualifying time.) 2:08.92 Rice AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-25-08 (Splits: 28.03, 1:00.56 [32.53], 1:39.24 [38.68], 2:08.92 [29.68]) (Note: first Australian woman to set wr in 36 years, since Shane Gould [2:23.07, 1972 Munich Olympics.] First-time ever in Southern Hemisphere.)

2:08.94 Coventry World Championships Rome 07-17-09 (Splits: 28.27, 1:00.22 [31.95], 1:36.70 [37.43], 2:08.94 [30.74]. (Note: fastest-ever non-medal winning time [fourth].) 2:08.95 Caitlin Leverenz, USA/Cal Olympics London 07-30-12 (Splits: 28.08, 1:01.80 [33.72], 1:37.94 [36.14], 2:08.95 [31.01]. (Note: 2K12/‘13 NCAA D1 gold-medalist, U.S. Open/American/NCAA record-holder, 200 yard IM. Won Olympic Trials 200 IM [2:10.22], runner-up in 400.) 2:09.00 Coutts World Chanpionships Shanghai 07-25-11 (Splits: 27.70. 1:01.47 [33.77]. 1:38.68 [37.21], 2:09.00 [30.32]) 2:09.08 Shiwen CHN Nationals/WCTs Zhengzhou 04-02-13 (Splits: 28.03. 1:01.52 [33.54]. 1:38.57 [37.05], 2:09.00 [30.51]) 2:09.12p Hosszu World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 27.56, 1:00.31 [32.75], 1:38.62 [38.31], 2:09.12 [30.50]):


2:09.12 Kukors World Chanpionships Shanghai 07-25-11 (Splits: 2799. 1:00.55 [32.56], 1:38.02 [37.57], 2:09.12 [31.10]. (Note: defending champion/world record-holder wins bronze.) 2:09.34 Julia Smit, USA/Stanford U.S. Nationals/WCTs Indianapolis 07-07-09 (Splits: 28.53, 1:02.11 [33.58], 1:38.54 [36.43], 2:09.34 [30.80]. (Note: gold-medalist, NCAA Division 1 200 yard Individuaul Medley [2009-’10]. (Note: U.S. Open”All Comers”/IUPUI Natatorium pool records. (Note: world record-holder, 200 meter Ind. Medley [scm], 2:05.60, “Duel in the Pool,” Manchester, 12-19-09) 2:09.37* Camille Muffat, FRA FRA Nationals/WCTs Montpellier 04-26-09 (Splits: 28.66, 1:02.22 [33.56], 1:39.23 [37.01], 2:08.37 [29.14]) (Note: first European record for Muffat and first French woman to set European 200 IM standard.) 2:09.37 Shiwen 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 11-18-10 (Splits: 27.72, 1:01.63 [32.91], 1:39.40 [37.77], 2:09.27 [29.97]. (Note: Games record.) 2:09.38 Rice AUS Olympic Trrialsla Adelaide 03-17-12 (Splits: 28.15, 1:01.04 [32.89], 1:38.58 [37.54], 2:09.38 [30.80]. (Note: second-consecutive Trials win. Second-fastest all-time 200 IM Southern Hemisphere. Only Rice’s 2:08.92 from 2K8 Olympic Trials faster. Rice is defending Olympic gold-medalist.) 2:09.39 Leverenz U.S. Nationals Atlanta 12-01-11 (Splits: 28.14, 1:01.57 [33.43], 1:38.05 [36.48], 2:09.39 [31.34]. (Note: Championships record. ) 2:09.43 Shiwen CHN Olympic Trials Shaoxing 04-03-12 (Splits: 28.64, 1:01.46 [32.82], 1:38.35 [36.89], 2:09.43 [31.08]) 2:09.46* Hannah Miley, GBR World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 28.87, 1:02.01 [33.14], 1:38.83 [36.83], 2], 2:09.46 [30.63]) 2:09.53sf1 Coventry Olympics Beijing 08-12-08 (Splits: 29.17, 1:01.25 [31.08], 1:39.29 [38.14], 2:09.53 [30.24]) 2:09.53 Kukors XLIV Santa Clara International GP Santa Clara 06-19-11 (Splits: 28.52, 1:01.75 [31.23], 1:39.26 [27.51], 2:09.53 [30.27]) (Note: meet record.) 2:09.55 Rice Olympics London 07-30-12 (Splits: 27.98, 1:00.84 [32.86], 1:38.67 [37.83], 2:09.55 [30.88]) 2:09.59 Miley GBR Nationals/WCTs Sheffield 03-`7-09

(Splits: 29.46, 1:02.37 [32.91], 1:39.31 [36.94], 2:09.59 [30.28]. (Note: first Brittish woman to set a European 200 IM record.)

2:09.64p Rice World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 27.76, 1:00.56 [32.74], 1:37.85], 2:09.64 [38.35 [31.29]) 2:09.65sf1 Rice World Championships Shanghai 07-24-11 (Splits: 27.66, 1:00.69 [33.03], 1:38.69 [38.00], 2:09.65 [30.97]) 2:09.65 Rice World Chanpionships Shanghai 07-25-11 (Splits: 27.88. 1:01.08[33.20]. 1:38.81 [37.73], 2:09.65 [30.84]) 2:09.67 Shiwen BHP BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series Perth 01-18-13 (Splits: 28.50. 1:01.13 [32.63]. 1:38.67 [37.54], 2:09.67 [31.00]) 2:09.68 Coutts XXXII Cit.de Barcelona/Mare Nos, Barcelona 06-05-11 (Splits: 27.84, 1:01.70 [33.86], 1:39.28 [37.58], 2:09.68 [30.40]. (Note: meet/Mare Nostrum series/Spanish Open-“All Comers” records.) 2:09.70 Coutts Commonwealth Games New Delhi 10-04-10 (Splits: 28.22, 1:01.40 [33.18], 1:39.06 [37.66], 2:09.70 [30.64]. (Note: Games record.) 2:09.71 Katie Hoff, USA U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-02-08 (Splits: 28.30, 1:01.41 [33.11], 1:39.23 [37.82], 2:09.71 [30.48]. (Note: Trials record/17-18 NAG record.) 2:09.71 Leverenz USA Grand Prix Indianapolis 03-31-12 (Splits: 28.35, 1:02.22 [33.87], 1:38.61 [36.39], 2:09.71 [31.10]) 2:09.72 Yanyan Wu, CHN 8th National Games Shanghai 10-17-97 (Splits: 28.81, 1:01.91 [33.10], 1:39.44 [37.53], 2:09.72 [30.28])


2:09.73* Julie Hjorth-Hansen, DEN World Championships Rome 07-27-09 (Splits: 28.44, 1:02.05 [33.612], 1:39.20 [37.15], 2:09.73 [30.53]) 2:09.77 Natalie Coughlin, USA/Cal 15th Janet Evans Invitational Los Angeles 06-06-08 (Splits: 27.39, 1:00.66 [33.27], 1:39.80 [39.14], 2:09.77 [29.97]. (Note: Olympic gold-medalist, 100 meter backstroke [Athens, 2004; Beijing, 2008].

(Note: meet/Southern California Swimming Open/”All Comers” records.) 2:09.83sf1 Kukors World Championships Shanghai 07-24-11 (Splits: 28.10, 1:00.81 [32.71], 1:38.48 [37.67], 2:09.82 [31.35]) 2:09.83 Coutts AUS Olympic Trrialsla Adelaide 03-17-12 (Splits: 27.57, 1:00:89 [32.89], 1:38.21 [37.22], 2:09.83 [31.62]) 2:09.83sf2 Coutts Olympics London 07-30-12 (Splits: 27.80, 1:00.94 [33.14], 1:39.12 [3818], 2:09.83 [30.71]) 2:09.83 Kukors Olympics London 07-30-12 (Splits: 28.30, 1:00.98 [32.68], 1:38.73 [38.75], 2:09.83 [31.10]) 2:09.87 Evelyn Verraszto, HUN HUN Nationals/WCTs Eger 06-28-09 (Splits: 28.58, 1:00.97 [33.32], 1:40.10 [39.24], 2:09.87 [29.77]) (Note: daughter of Zoltan, 1975 World Champion, 200 meter backstroke [Cali] Zoltan also set a world-record in 400 IM [4:26.00] @ AAU Championships a year later [Belmont Plaza, 04/01/76 – NO FOOLIN’!]) 2:09.87sf1 Hjorth-Hansen World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 28.28, 1:02.13 [33.85], 1:38.92 [36.79], 2:09.87 [30.95]) Remaining Top 50 Performers 2:09.93 Emily Seebohm, AUS Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-21-10 (Splits: 27.53, 1:00.63 [33.10], 1:39.15 [38.52], 2:09.93 [30.78]. (Note: Championships record. Seebohm’s first major international 200 IM gold.) 2:10.02 Elizabeth Pelton, USA/Cal U.S. Nationals Atlanta 12-01-11 (Splirs: 27.86, 1:00.42 [32.56], 1:39.22 [38.80], 2:10.02 [30.80) 2:10.11 Whitney Myers, USA/Arizona Pan-Pac Championships Victoria 08-20-06 (Splits: 28.60, 1:01.58 [32.98], 1:39.31 [27.72], 2:10.11 [30.80])

2:10.26* Mireia Belmonte Garcia, ESP ESP Nationals/WCTs Madrid 04-03-11 (Splits: 28.45, 1:02.10 [33.65], 1:39.79 [37.69], 2:10.26 [30.47]. (Note: third gold/NR of meeting. Also set Spanish standards in 200 fly/400 IM.) 2:10.27 Zsuszana Jakabos, HUN/UNLV Swimcup Eindhoven Eindhoven 04-04-13 (Splits: 28.11, 1:01.39 [33.28], 1:39.21 [37.82], 2:10.27 [31.06])

2:10.53 Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, GBR British Gas International Lrrds 03-07-13 (Splits: 27.57, 1:00.57 [33.00], 1:38.68 [37.11], 2:10.53 [31.85])

2:10.67 Jing Liu, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-22-09 (Splits: 27.98, 1:01.63 [33.65], 1:40.46 [38.83], 2:10.67 [30.21]) 2:10.68* Yana Klochkova, UKR Olympics Sydney 09-18-00

(Splits: 28.70, 1:01.78 [33.08], 1:40.05 [38.27], 2:10.68 [30.63] (Note: gold-medalist.)

2:10.75 Elizbeth Beisel, USA/Florida U.S. Nationals Palo Alto 08-02-11 (Splits: 28.97, 1:02.03 [33.06], 1:40.23 [39.20], 2:10.75 [30.52]. (Note: two days earlier won giold in 400 IM @ World Championships in Shanghai! 2:10.79 Dagny Knutson, USA/Minot HS Junior Pan-Pac Championships Guam 01-11-09

(Splits: 29.23, 1:01.06 [31.83], 1:41.15 [40.09], 2:10.79 [29.64]. (Note: Championships record.) 2:10.90* Tomoyo Fukuda, JPN 64th National Sports Festival Nagaoka 09-11-09

(Splits: 27.71, 1:00.50 [32.79], 1:39.71 [39.21], 2:10.90 [31.19]) 2:11.23* Erica Morningstar, CAN CAN Nationals/WCTs Victoria 04-02-11 (Splits: 28/63, 1:01.66 [33.03], 1:39.25 [38.29] 211.23 [321.98]) 2:11.25* Alessia Filippi, ITA ITA Nationals/WCTs Pescara 05-19-09 (Splits: 29.66, 1:02.00 [32.34], 1:40.79 [38.79], 2:11.25 [30.46]) 2:11.25 Morgan Scroggy, USA/Georgia U.S. Nationals/Pan-Pacs, WCTs Irvine 08-03-10

(Splits: 28.43, 1:01.29 [32.86], 1:40.73 [39.44], 2:11.25 [30.52]) 2:11.26 Qun Wang, CHN CHN Nats/Pan-Pac, Asian Games Tls. Shaoxing 04-25-10 (Splits: 29.23, 1:02.11 [32.88], 1:40.83 [38.72], 2:11.26 [30.53])


2:11.27 Yan Chen, CHN 8th National Games Shanghai 10-17-97 (Splits: 29.07, 1:03.03 [33.96], 1:40.95 [37.92], 2:11.27 [30.32])

2:11.32 Julia Wilkinson, CAN/Tx . A&M Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-21-10 (Splits: 28.80, 1:01.38 [32.78], 1:40.33 [38.95], 2:11.32 [30.99])

2:11.44 Asami Kitagawa, JPN 84th Japan University Championships Tokyo 09-06-08 (Splits: 28.83, 1:02.99 [34.16], 1:40.10 [37.11], 2:11.44 [30.34]) 2:11.46 Justine Mueller, USA/Michigan U.S. Open Federal Way 08-08-09 (Splits: 28.73, 1:04.04 [33.50], 1:40.47 [36.43], 2:11.46 [30.99]. (Note: second gold for former Wolverine Big Ten champion. Won 400 IM in pr.4:40.61. (Note: U.S. Open record.)

2:11.49 Sophie Allen, GBR XXXI European Championships `Debrecen 05-24-12 (Splits: 28.69, 1:03.09 [34.68], 140.36 [37.29], 2:11.49 [3113])

2:11.50 Min Zhou, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Zhengzhou 04-02-13 (Splits: 29.33. 1:03.18 [33.85]. 1:40.57 [37.39], 2:11.50 [30.93]) 2:11.65 Lin Li, CHN Olympics Barcelona 07-30-92 (Splits: 28.68, 1:02.05 [33.27], 1:40.77 [38.72], 2:11.65 [30.98].

(Note: gold-medalist.) 2:11.69 Melissa Franklin, USA U.S. Nationals/Pan-Pacs, WCTs Irvine 08-03-10

(Splits: 28.69, 1:01.59 [32.90]. 1:41.23 [39.64], 2`11.69 [30.46]) 2:11.70 Amanda Beard, USA/Arizona Olympics Athens 08-16-04

(Splits: 29.17, 1:03.73 [35.56], 1:40.65 [36.92], 2:11.70 [31.05]) 2:11.73* Ute Geweniger, GDR GDR Nationals East Berlin 07-04-81 (Splits: 28.60, 1:02.22 [33.82], 1:40.75 [38.53], 2:11.73 [30.98])

2:11.73* Dariya Belyakina, RUS World Championships Rome 07-26-09 (Splits: 28.77, 1:02.64 [33.87], 1:41.38 [38.74], 2:11.73 [30.35]). 2:11.73 Wengqing Zhang, CHN CHN Nationals/WCTs Zhengzhou 04-02-13 (Splits: 28.97. 1:02.56 [33.59]. 1:40.85 [38.29], 2:11.73 [30.88]) 2:11.79 Petra Schneider, GDR World Championships Guayaquil 08-06-82 (Splits: 28.91, 1:02.80 [33.89], 1:40.92 [38.12], 2:11.79 [30.87]. (Note: gold-medalist.)

2:11.79 Izumi Kato, JPN JPN Olympic Trials Tokyo 04-05-12 (Spllts: 28.65, 1:02.69 [32.04], 1:40.10 [37.41], 2:11.79 [31.69]) 2:11.91 Summer Sanders, USA/Stanford Olympics Barcelona 07-30-92 (Splits: 28.27, 1:02.16 [33.89], 1:40.58 [38.42], 2:11.91 [31.33].

(Note: silver-medalist.) 2:11.92 Madeline DiRado, USA/Stanford U.S. Nationals Palo Alto 08-02-11

(Splits: 28.51, 1:01.72 [33.21], 1:40.85 [39.13], 2:11.92 [31.07]) 2:11.93 Maggie Bowen, USA/Auburn World Championships Fukuoka 07-27-01 (Splits: 29.87, 1:02.60 [32.73], 1:41.74 [39.14], 2:11.93 [30.13]. (Note: Auburn’s first female World Champion. First U.S. gold-medalist since Tracy Caulkins [1978])

2:11.96sf Ava Ohlgren, USA/Auburn U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 07-01-08 (Note: 2008 NCAA Division 1 200 yard Individual Medley champion.) 2:12.00 Megumi Higuchi, JPN 80th Inter Hig-School Championships Nigata 08-20-12 (Note: national high-school record.)


400 METER INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY Top 5 Performances 4:28.43** Y0e Shiwen, CHN Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 1:02.19, 2:11.73 [1:09.54], 3:29.75 [1:18.02], 4:28.43 [58.68]. (Note: final 100 .03 slower than Ryan Lochte’s 58.65 [on his winning 400 IM] but her final 50 [28.83] FASTER than Lochte’s 29.10! (Note: first Asian gold-medalist, Ye’s first world-record. Won 200 IM @ last year’s World Championships w/a textile-best 2:08.90, a time she equaled here in qualifying, then won gold in Olympic-record 2:07.57. (Note: youngest-ever winner [16. DOB: 01/03/96.] (Note: second Chinese wr-setter. Countrywoman Yan Chen swam a 4:34.79 in 1997. (Note: sixth time record has been broken @ an Olympics: Gail Neal [AUS], Munich, 1972; Ulrike Tauber [GDR], Montreal, ’76; Petra Schneider [GDR], Moscow, ’80; Yana Klochkova [UKR], Sydney,’00; Stephanie Rice [AUS], Beijing, ’08; Ye Shiwen [CHN], London, ’12.

(Note: first women’s textile world-record. (Note: “15-16 NAG record.”) 4:29.45*+# Stephanie Rice, AUS Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 1:01.47, 2:09.83 [1:08.36], 3:27.25 [1:17.43], 4:29.45 [1:02.20]) (Note: second Australian gold-medalist. First wr-setter @ Olympics since Ukraine’s Yana Klichkova [4:33.59, Sydney, Y2K]. First woman to break wr twice in same year since East Germany’s Petra Schneider, who did it thrice in 1980: March 30 [4:39.96 @ USSR Dual Meet in Leningrad]; May 27 [4:36.29 @ GDR Olympic Trials in Magdeburg]; July 26 [4:36.10 @ Olympics in Moscow]. Schneider first woman under 4:40.0. Rice first under 4:30.0. (Note: subsequent revelations showed Frau Schneider & Co. had a few extra “tigers” in their tanks.)

4:29.89* Kirsty Coventry, ZIM/Auburn Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 1:02.75, 2:09.50 [1:06.75], 3:28.46 [1:18.96], 4:29.89 [1:01.43]) (Note: African record, first African medalist. (Note: fastest all-time by a Southeastern Conference swimmer although now she trains @ Texas.)

4:30.31+*^ Katinka Hosszu, HUN/USC World Championships Rome 08-02-09 (Splits: 1:01.61, 2:09.29[1:07.68], 3:28.81 [1:19.52], 4:30.31 [1:02.50]. (Note: Hosszu’s first international gold-medal, Hungary’s frst gold-medalist. Countrywaoman Eva Riszov won a silver-medal @ Barcelona [2003]. Hungarian men have collected five 400 IM golds: Andras Sinanrgitay [1973-’75; Tams Darnyi [1986-‘91]; Lasszlo Cseh [2005]. USA has most titles [six] (Note: Hosszu won a bronze in the 200 fly two days earlier for her first World Championship medal. (Note: USC coach Dave Salo has now guided three gold medalists here, Ous Mellouli [1500 free]; Rebecca Soni [100 breast] and Hosszu. Soni set a world-record in the semi finals of her race. (Note: as a junior [2010-‘11] for USC, Hosszu set Trojan records en route to sweeping golds in the 20 fly/ both IMs @ NCAAs, earning Swimmer of the Championships honors. She broke her NCAA 400 IM record @ 2K12 NCAAs with a U.S. Open standard en route to second-consecutive gold.) 4:30.43 Xuanxi Li, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-18-09 (Splits: 1:01.73, 2:10.94 [1:09.21], 3:29.23 [1:18.29], 4:30.43 [1:01.20]) (Note: first Asian record of career [15 years old, born 1994!]. Youngest-ever sub 4:35.0. (Note: career- best coming into meet: 4:36.35 from prelims of Beijing Olympics; then 14 years old!) 4:30.85 Hui Qi, CHN 11th National Games Jinan 10-18-09 (Splits: 1:00.94, 2:12.24 [1:11.30], 3:27.97 [1:15.73], 4:30.85 [1:02.88]. (Note: first time two swimmer from same country under 4:31.0, let alone in same race! (Note: second-fastest non-winning time ever Qi’s pr prior to this meet was a 4:38.20 eight years ago @ the 9th National Games in Guangzhou as a then 16-year-old.) 4:31.12* Katie Hoff, USA U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-29-08 (Splits: 1:03.69, 2:13.33 [1:09.64], 3:28.65 [1:15.35], 4:31.12 [1:02.47]) (Note: first American to set wr in consecutive years since Claudis Kolb [5:08.2, AAUs, Phladelphia, 08/67; 5:04.7, Olympic Trials, Los Angeles, 08/68.]. First woman to break it more than once since GDR’s Petra Schneider did it four times between 1980 [Russian Dual Meet, Leningrad, March] and 1982 World Championships [Guayaquil, August 1982].

4:31.27 Elizabeth Beisel, USA/Florida Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 1:03.10, 2:11.28 [1:08.18], 3:28.94 [1:17.66], 4:31.27 [1:02.33]. (Note: silver-medalist. Won World Championships gold previous year [Shanghai])


4:31.33* Hannah Miley, GBR GBR Nationals/WCTs Sheffield 03-20-09 (Splits: 1:02.77, 2:12.40 [1:09.63], 3:28.74 [1:16.34], 4:31.33 [1:02.59]) (Note: first British woman to hold European record and first British woman to hold both 200-400 IM ERs let alone simultaneously!)

4:31.46 Rice AUS Olympic Trials Sydney 03-22-08 (Splits: 1:02.33, 2:10.97 [1:08.64], 3:29.08 [1:18.11], 4:31.46 [1:02.38]) (Note: first Australia woman in 36 years and second ever to set wr. First was Gail Neal @ Munich Olympics [1972]. Rice first Australian woman to hold both medley wrs simultaneously and first to set both in same meet since East Germany’s Petra Schneider @ 1980 Olympic Trials [Magdeburg])

4:31.68p Beisel Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 1:03.22, 2:11.31 [1:08.09], 3:28.52 [1:17.21], 4:31.68 [1:03.16]. (Note: fastest-ever qualifying time.)

4:31.71 Hoff Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 1:02.80, 2:12.61 [1:09.81], 3:29.41 [1:16.90], 4:31.71 [1:02.30]) 4:31.73p Shiwen Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 1:01.99, 2:09.95 [1:07.96], 3:29.71 [1:19.76], 4:31.73 [1:02.02])

4:31.74 Beisel U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-25-12 (Splits: 1:03.02, 2:11.50 [1:08.48], 3:29.09 [1:17.59], 4:31.74 [1:02.63]. 4:31.78 Beisel World Championships Shanghai 07-31-11 (Splits: 1:03.32, 2:11.96 [1:08.64], 3:29.80 [1:17.84], 4:31.78 [1:01.98]. (Note: first World Championships gold, second Gator champ, third American winner. Tracy Caulkins [1978], Katie Hoff [2K5, ‘07] other two. Caulkins swam for Florida in early ‘80s – prior to when she won @ Berlin. She also won both IMs @ ’84 Olympics in LA. (Note: Caulkins married fellow Gator sprinter Mark Stockwell, an Australian who was runner-up @ Los Angeles Olympics in the 100 meter free and has been living Down Under since. Look for “Lil’ Caulkins-Stockwells” on the podium @ Rio [’16 Olympics] or four years later in LaLa Land [again!]. 4:32.12 Coventry World Championships Rome 08-02-09 (Splits: 1:01.93, 2:09.32 [1:07.39], 3:28.70 [1:19.38], 4:31.12 [1:02.42]. (Note: second silver-medal. Was runner-up in 2005 to USA’s Katie Hoff @ Montreal. Also finished second to Australia’s Stephanie Rice @ 2008 Olympics. (Note: has three backstroke golds [100, 2005; 200, ‘05, ‘09]. Broke her own world-record from Olympics en route to the 200 back gold here.) 4:32.15 Coventry XLII Santa Clara International Invite. Santa Clara 06-13-09 (Splits: 1:02.83, 2:10.61 [1:07.78], 3:30.32 [1:19.71], 4:32.15 [1:01.83]. (Note: meet record.) 4:32.29 Rice World Championships Rome 08-02-09 (Splits: 1:01.79, 2:12.71 [1:10.92], 3:30.33 [1:17.62], 4:32.29 [1:01.96]) 4:32.67 Miley GBR Olympic Trials London 03-03-12 (Splits: 1:03.10, 2:12.46 [1:09.36], 3:29.23 [1:16.77], 4:32.67 [1:03.38]. (Note: fastest all-time in a British pool by a British swimmer.) 4:32.72 Miley World Championships Rome 08-02-09 (Splits: 1:03.84, 2:12.53 [1:08.69], 3:30.22 [1:17.69], 4:32.72 [1:02.50]) 4:32.83 Hosszu USA Grand Prix Indianapolis 03-30-12 (Splits: 1:01.18, 2:11.25 [1:10.07], 3:30.64 [1:19.39], 4:32.83 [1:02.19]) 4:32.87 Beisel U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-29-08 (Splits: 1:04.11, 2:12.66 [1:08.55], 2:30.45 [1:17.79], 4:32.87 [1:02.32]. (Note: 15-16 NAG record.) 4:32.89 Hoff World Championships Melbourne 04-01-07 (Splits: 1:03.91, 2:14.10 [1:10.19], 3:29.68 [1:19.58], 4:32.89 [1:03.21]) (Note: 17-18 NAG record. (Note: largest margin of victory ever [7.25 seconds]. And that AIN’T NO FOOLIN’!!!)

4:32.91 Li Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 1:02.91, 2:11.91 [1:09.00], 3:31.33 [1:19.42], 4:32.91 [1:02.58])


4 33.09 Miley XXX European Championships Budapest 08-09-10 (Splits: 1:02.50, 2:13.05 [1:09.55], 3:30.42 [1:17.37], 4:33.09 [1:01.67]. (Note: Championships record/first GBR gold-medalist/Miley’s first continental title/Britain’s first 400 IM first medal @ a European Championships since 15-year-old Sharron Davies won bronze @ Jonkepping [1977]. Davies went on to win silver @ Moscow Olympics three years later.) 4:33.24p Miley GBR Olympic Trials Sheffield 04-05-08 (Splits: 1:03.58, 2:12.23 [1:11.65], 3:29.64 [1:17.41], 4:33.24 [1:03.60]) (Note: fastest qualifying time ever.)

4:33.45 Rice AUS Olympic Trials Adelaide 03-15-12 (Splits: 1:02.51, 2:12.79 [1:10.28], 3:30.98 [1:18.19], 4:33.45 [1:02.47]. (Note: second-consecutive Trials win for defending Olympic gold-medalist/wr-holder.)

4:33.49 Hosszu Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 1:01.34, 2:11.13 [1:09.79], 3:30.83 [1:19.70], 4:33.49 [1:02.76])

4:33.59* Yana Klochkova, UKR Olympics Sydney 09-16-00 (Splits: 1:01.61, 2:12.30 [1:10.68], 3:31.63 [1:19.33], 4:33.59 [1:02.96]. (Note: gold-medalist. Ukraine’s first swimming gold [m/w], Repeated @ Athens in 2K4.) 4:33.66 Shiwen 7th National City Games Nanchang 10=17-11 (Splits: 1:02.99, 2:12.71 [1:09.72], 3:32.30 [1:19.59], 4:33.79 [1:01.36]. (Note: Games record.) 4:33.76 Hosszu XXXI European Championships Debrecen 05-21-12 (Splits: 1:02.38, 2:12.49 [1:10.11], 3:31.35 [1:18.86], 4:33.76 [1:02.41]. (Note: second major 400 IM title. Won World Championships gold three years earlier.) 4:33.77p Hosszu Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 1:02.02, 2:11.50 [1:09.48], 3:30.93 [1:19.43], 4:33.77 [1:02.84])

4:33.79 Shiwen 16th Asian Games Guangzhou 11-14-10 (Splits: 1:03.04, 2:12.69 [1:09.65], 3:32.42 [1:19.73], 4:33.79 [1:01.37]. (Note: Games record.) 4:33.88 Hosszu 16th Janet Evans Invitational Irvine 05-23-09 (Splits: 1:02.33, 2:11.82 [1:09.49], 3:31.35 [1:19.53], 4:33.88 [1:02.53]. (Note: Southern California Swimming Open/”All Comers” records.) 4:33.91* Mireia Belmonte Garcia, ESP ESP Open Championships Malaga 02-31-12 (Splits: 1:02.09, 2:13.19 [1:11.10], 3:31.71 [1:18.52], 4:33.91 [1:02.20]) 4:34.04p Beisel Pan-Pac Championships Irvine 08-19-10 (Splits: 1:03.08, 2:11.72 [1:08.64], 3:30.68 [1:18.96], 4:33.91 [1:03.36]) 4:34.17 Miley Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 1:03.02, 2:12.94 [1:09.92], 3:31.20 [1:18.26], 4:34.17 [1:02.97])

4:34.21 Miley Eindhoven Swimcup Eindhoven 04-05-13 (Splits: 1:03.71, 2:13.75 [1:10.04], 3:31.49 [1:17.74], 4:34.21 [1:02.72])

4:34.22 Miley World Championships Shanghai 07-31-11 (Splits: 1:02.97, 2:14.61 [1:10.64], 3:31.59 [1:16.98], 4:34.22 [1:02.69]) 4:34.23 Rice World Championships Shanghai 07-31-11 (Splits: 1:01.82, 2:11.16 [1:09.34], 3:31.41 [1:15.26], 4:34.23 [1:02.82]) 4:34.24 Beisel Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 1:03.54, 2:12.11 [1:08.55], 3:31.67 [1:19.56], 4:31.24 [59.57]) 4:34.25 Coventry American Long Course Champs. Austin 03-07-08 (Splits: 1:03.43, 2:12.07 [1:08.64], 3:32.20 [1:20.13], 4:34.25 [1:02.05]) 4:34.28p Li Olympics London 07-28-12 (Splits: 1:03.07, 2:12.31 [1:09.24], 3:31.51 [1:19.20], 4:34.28 [1:03.77]) 4:34.33 Li 7th National City Games Nanchang 10=17-11 (Splits: 1:03.53, 2:11.87 [1:08.34], 3:32.14 [1:20.27], 4:34.33 [1:02.19]) 4:34.34* Alessia Filippi, ITA Olympics Beijing 08-10-08 (Splits: 1:04.88, 2:12.32 [1:07.44], 3:33.45 [1:21.13], 4:34.34 [59.89]) 4:34.41 Miley XXX Cit. de Barcelona/Mare Nostrum Barcelona 06-06-09 (Splits: 1:01.82, 2:11.6 [1:09.41], 3:30.89 [1:17.03], 4:34.41 [1:03.52]) 4:34.48 Caitlin Leverenz, USA/Cal U.S. Olympic Trials Omaha 06-25-12 (Splits: 1:01.94, 2:14.23 [1:12.29], 3:30.14 [1:15.91], 4:34.48 [1:04.34])


4:34.49 Hoff Toyota/Buckeye Grand Prix Columbus 04-05-08 (Splits: 1:02.27, 2:10.42 [1:08.15], 3:28.58 [1:18.16], 4:34.49 [1:05.91]) 4:34.53 Hoff Toyota/Missouri Grand Prix Columbia 02-17-08 (Splits: .1:03.92, 2:14.55 [1:10.63], 3:30.03 [1:16.52], 4:34.53 [1:03.46]) 4:34.55p Beisel Olympics Beijing 08-09-08 (Splits: 1:03.89, 2:12.04 [1:08.15], 3:31.41 [1:19.37], 4:34.55 [1:03.14].

Remaining Top 50 Performers 4:34.79 Yan Chen, CHN 8th National Games Shanghai 10-13-97

(Splits: 1:03.22, 2:12.15 [1:08.93], 3:32.28 [1:20.13], 4:34.79 [1:02.51]) 4:34.95 Kaitlin Sandeno, USA/USC Olympics Athens 08-14-04

(Splits: 1:02.95, 2:13.30 [1:10.35], 3:33.09 [1:19.79], 4:34.95 [1:01.86]) 4:35.33 Julia Smit, USA/Stanford World Championships Rome 08-02-09 (Splits: 1:04.3, 2:14.88 [1:10.65], 3:31.11 [1:17.23], 4:34.35 [1:04.34])

(Note: 2008-‘20 NCAA Division 1 400 yard Individual Medley gold-medalist; AR/NCAA record-holder. (Note: world record-holder, 400 meter Individual Medley [scm], 4:21.04, “Duel in the Pool,” Manchester, 12-18-09)

4:35.43 Zsuzsanna Jakabos, HUN/UNLV Eindhoven Swimcup Eindhoven 04-05-13 (Splits: 1:02.73, 2:11.99 [1:09.26], 3:32.23 [1:20.24], 4:35.43 [1:03.20])

4:35.84p* Tanya Hunks, CAN World Championships Rome 08-02-09 (Splits: 1:02.73, 2:12.54 [1:09.81], 3:31.89 [1:19.35], 4:35.85 [1:02.96]) (Note: first national-record of career. Came @ age 28! Turned 29 22 days later.) 4:35.96* Yasuke Tajima, JPN Olympics Sydney 09-16-00

(Splits: 1:03.27, 2:11.74 [1:08.57], 3:33.98 [1:22.24], 4:35.96 [1:01.98]. (Note: silver-medalist.)

4:36.02 Dagny Knutson, USA/Minot HS XLII Santa Clara International Invite.Santa Clara 06-13-09 4:36.10* Petra Schneider, GDR World Championships Guayaquil 08-01-82 (Note: gold-medalist.) 4:36.17 Eva Risztov, HUN XXVI European Championships Berlin 07-29-02 4:36.21 Blair Evans, AUS South Australia State Championships Adelaide 01-27-12 (Note: South Australian Open/”All Comers” record. (Note: fastest all-time prior to February 1, ANY year.) 4:36.25p* Yana Martynova, RUS Olympics Beijing 08-09-08 4:36.28 Yanyan Wu, CHN 8th National Games Shanghai 10-13-97 4:36.54 Krisztina Egerszegi, HUN Olympics Barcelona 07-26-92 (Note: gold-medalist.) 4:36.64 Miyu Ohtsuka, JPN JPN Olympic Trials Tokyo 04-02-12 (Note: national high-school record. Born: 1994.) 4:36.73 Lin Li, CHN Olympics Barcelona 07-26-92 (Note: silver-medalist.)

4:36.95p* Katarzyna Baranowska, POL Olympics Beijing 08-09-08 4:36.96p* Barbora Zavadova, CZE World Championships Shanghai 07-31-11 4:37.03 Ariana Kukors, USA U.S. Nationals/Pan-Pac, WCTs Irvine 07-04-10 4:37.11p* Kathryn Meaklim, RSA Olympics Beijing 08-09-08 (Note: world record-holder, 400 meter Individual Medley [scm], 4:22.88, World Cup, Singapore, 11-22-09) 4:37.18 Guohong Dai, CHN 7th National Games Beijing 09-09-93 4:37.18* Beatrice Coada-Caslaru, ROM Olympics Sydney 09-16-00 (Note: bronze-medalist.) 4:37.35p Maiko Fujino, JPN Olympics Beijing 08-09-08 4:37.48 Aimee Willmott, GBR GBR Olympic Trials London 03-03-12 4:37.51* Georgina Bardach, ARG Olympics Athens 08-14-04

4:37.58 Summer Sanders, USA/Stanford Olympics Barcelona 07-26-92 (Note: bronze-medalist.)

4:37.68 Rongrong Zheng, CHN CHN Nats./Pan-Pac-Asian Games Tls. Shaoxing 04-22-10 4:37.71 Miho Takahashi, JPN JPN Olympic Trials Tokyo 04-02-12 4:37.76 Janet Evans, USA/El Dorado HS Olympics Seoul 09-19-88 (Note: gold-medalist. Last American winner.)

4:37.83 Min Zhou, CHN CHN Olympic Trials Shaoxing 04-02-12


4:37.84p Samantha Hamill, AUS World Championshiups Rome 08-02-09 4:37.88 Madeline DiRado, USA/Stanford U.S. Nationals Palo Alto 08-04-11 4:37.97* Nicole Hetzer, GER XXVIII European Championships Budapest 07-31-06

4:38.13* Anja Klinar, SLO/SMU XXX European Championships Budapest 08-09-10 4:38.20p* Julie Hjorth-Hansen, DEN World Championships Rome 08-02-09 4:38.23* Joanne Andraca, FRA FRA Olympic.Trials Dunkirk 04-20-08 4:38.23* Camille Muffat, FRA FRA Olympic Trials Dunkirk 04-20-08

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